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Tekrmn

Tekrmn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) created their account on 2023-02-10, they made one edit, then went dormant until 2023 Covenant School shooting occurred. At this point they began editing significantly on the subject, as well as other transgender subjects. They were given the standard contentious topics alert (notice). Since then they've repeatedly misrepresented sources, our policies and guidelines, edit warred (AN/EW report), and engaged in personal attacks (accusing an editor of "vandalizing", "your opinion doesn't matter" and another "vandalism" claim, casting aspersions about other editors), finally culminating in this edit they made that's a combination of WP:NPA and WP:ASPERSIONS: this template does not belong on this page, and locke cole has been consistently vandalizing this page, misusing wikipedia guidelines, goading people into edit wars, and now marking the whole page as not being neutral because they don't like that we aren't consistently deadnaming the shooter. why haven't we removed this template and why haven't we removed locke cole from this article? (as regards the end of their rant, the reason the NPOV tag is still there is because a number of other editors agree there is an issue). Their edits show signs of being a WP:SPA, seemingly here to WP:RGW. Behavior like this is not conducive to building an encyclopedia. —Locke Cole • t • c 07:04, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

While I have edited multiple pages that involve transgender people or topics, I have also edited a number of pages on other topics and am working on a draft that is on another unrelated topic. Many wikipedia editors have specific areas of interest. The edit warring report was dismissed for good reason. I think if you take a look at Locke Cole's own history and the context of the quotes they've given above you will see what is actually going on. Tekrmn (talk) 15:24, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Do you deny saying locke cole has been consistently vandalizing this page, misusing wikipedia guidelines, goading people into edit wars? You shouldn't because I literally linked to the diff of you saying that. So since you made those multiple claims of misbehavior, do you have any evidence of that to back those claims up? Because if you don't, that's exactly what WP:ASPERSIONS warns against. The edit warring report was dismissed for good reason. You did four reverts in less than 24 hours, after being warned about WP:3RR. Nobody forced you to do those reverts. The only reason you weren't blocked was because you ended up self-reverting. I don't know that I'd call that a "good reason" when you had all the reason in the world not to revert the 4th time already. —Locke Cole • t • c 15:44, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

@Locke Cole, do you have diffs to support repeatedly misrepresented sources? Schazjmd (talk) 15:54, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

• Was debating another editor over someone being characterized as a "friend", the linked source is even titled "Friend says she contacted authorities after messaging with Nashville shooter Audrey Hale on morning of attack". (As an aside, Derekeaaron1 and Tekrmn are the same editor, they changed their name in the middle of this, which ended up with editors restating arguments repeatedly because it seemed like another editor was engaging the topic.
• Claimed all social media accounts had changed their name, but this was demonstrably not true (specifically, their LinkedIn profile still used the "deadname").

Pretty sure there were more, but that was all I could type out in five minutes.. —Locke Cole • t • c 16:11, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

On the debating another editor diff, that isn't misrepresenting the source. The linked source quite clearly states Paige Patton, a Nashville radio host who goes by the name Averianna, told ABC News that said she played basketball with Hale in eighth grade and remained in occasional contact with Hale.

On the claimed all social media accounts diff that seems more like an honest mistake than anything particularly nefarious.

Do you have any more diffs? Because what you've provided so far doesn't really support your assertion. Sideswipe9th (talk) 00:49, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

I mean the repeated claims of editors being "vandals" and asking when they're going to be blocked is really enough. Unless that's your definition of a collegial editing environment... —Locke Cole • t • c 04:29, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

I thought it was pretty clear that I was referring to the two diffs on repeatedly misrepresented sources when I said that the diffs you had provided don't support the assertion. If you do not have any other diffs that support the assertion on misrepresenting sources, I would ask that you strike it.

In relation to the three diffs in your opening comment, I'd agree that the first two are mildly bad. But only so far as they should be warned not to do that again on an article talk page. The third diff however, could you explain what the aspersion here is? The first sentence of it is certainly overly personalised, and could have been phrased with more tact (for example saying something like "I think you're overlooking the part that it can affect other trans people"), but it does not really fall into aspersion territory.

The fourth diff is something that doesn't belong on an article talk page, but would be appropriate at a noticeboard like this with sufficiently strong diffs to support it. But as with the first two diffs, this only really rises to the degree of a warning to stop making that sort of comment outside of an appropriate noticeboard.

As to your accusation of being a WP:SPA, I have to disagree. While a lot of Tekrmn's activity has been on the 2023 Nashville school shooting article, its talk page, and the current discussion at WT:MOSBIO about deadnaming of deceased trans and non-binary people, there are also mainspace contributions to a pretty wide array of topics. Sideswipe9th (talk) 17:36, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh, I understood what you were asking about. I just think it’s akin to worrying about the walnut shell littering while the forest is burning down. Personal attacks and casting aspersions like that (all while advocating for “removing” me from the article) from an editor with less than 500 edits strikes me as enough to skip to NOTHERE. For anyone else reading this, understand that Sideswipe9th and I are on seemingly opposite ends of a discussion on that article talk page, and their appearance here feels like ally-protecting. It would be nice to see some uninvolved admins taking a look at this. —Locke Cole • t • c 17:50, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

And now Tekrmn has upgraded to WP:GRAVEDANCING with this edit, knowing that InedibleHulk (talk · contribs) is currently blocked and unable to respond, they've decided to respond to a nearly week old comment of theirs. —Locke Cole • t • c 05:00, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

More aspersions. —Locke Cole • t • c 05:10, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Not aspersions, nor is that gravedancing. It fully appears Tekrmn is unaware of InedibleHulk's block. Recommend closing this nothing burger. ––FormalDude (talk) 05:30, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for confirming you don't know what aspersions are or what WP:GRAVEDANCING says. And note here again, FD and I are on apparently opposite ends of the discussion at the talk page there. It would be incredible if someone uninvolved took the time to look this over, or should I just go to AE since apparently that's what we do when we want to get rid of people? —Locke Cole • t • c 17:34, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

I did not know that user was blocked (or even how to find that information), and responded to a comment in a discussion that I was not aware of until today. Even if I was aware they were blocked, I do not see how that would constitute gravedancing. you have been consistently misrepresenting my actions in order to try and get me banned for a week and a half. you know full well that I am a new editor who does not know the rules as well as you do and is therefor likely to stumble into them and not be able to defend myself against your accusations. or show the other side of the story. to any admins weighing in on this, I would appreciate it if you would look at the history between Locke Cole and myself, as well as their individual history. I feel this user is going out of their way to attack me. Tekrmn (talk) 05:31, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

I’m going out of my way to attack you? Tell me, of the two of us, which one has called the other a “vandal”, and repeatedly claimed they “vandalized” the article? Which one of us has called for “removing” the other from the article? Now, tell me again, who is attacking who? —Locke Cole • t • c 20:18, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

you attempted to get me permanently banned from editing and have now brought me to a noticeboard, all without ever attempting to discuss what you feel is inappropriate about my behavior or how you think I should change it. I don't think that assumes good faith and I don't think you have followed the guidelines in dispute resolution when we have disagreed on content, guidelines that I have only become aware of recently. Tekrmn (talk) 01:57, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

you attempted to get me permanently banned from editing WP:AN/3RR is not a "permanent ban", I did indicate that given your other behavior at the time that WP:NOTHERE might be relevant. all without ever attempting to discuss what you feel is inappropriate about my behavior or how you think I should change it You mean like this? Which, instead of responding or heeding my warning, you chose to copy what I did, then remove the warning from you page and reverted again anyways (your 4th in 24 hours). I don't think that assumes good faith WP:AGF is not a death pact. And maybe you missed it, but we're all volunteers here: I'm not going to invest significant amounts of time when you initially refuse to engage. —Locke Cole • t • c 05:42, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

WP:AGF is not a death pact No, but constantly assuming bad faith isn't very compatible with editing Wikipedia. It's fine to be annoyed sometimes (and God knows I'm sometimes pissed off by vandals when doing recent changes patrol), but so far, all I've seen from you is a battleground mentality. (Then again, we haven't interacted much.) LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 09:39, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

you indicated there and here that you think I should be permanently banned. you have invested a significant amount of time into getting me permanently banned and zero time into discussing any of this with me. I never said why you tried to get me banned or that AGF is a "death pact." Tekrmn (talk) 13:49, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Asked and answered. I note with interest that the comment that precipitated this, calling me a vandal and stating that my edits are vandalism, is still active and you've yet to provide any evidence to support your aspersions. Some more examples of you accusing people of being vandals either collectively (for not agreeing with you) or directly:

• "editing is protected to prevent vandalism from who refuse to acknowledge the evidence and the rules of wikipedia that indicate we should use the name Aiden and he/him pronouns to refer to the shooter."
• "Your edits are vandalism at this point."
• "I'm not going to respond to you again unless you vandalize this article again or come up with a reliable source to verify your claims."

Can you please provide evidence that your claim that I'm a vandal is valid? Can you provide evidence for the last two bulletted diffs above that show InedibleHulk (talk · contribs) is a vandal? Are you aware that WP:VANDALISM says Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. For example, edit warring over how exactly to present encyclopedic content is not vandalism? Do you think you should be allowed to call people names without any repercussions? —Locke Cole • t • c 04:14, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

The second and third diffs in your bulleted list are diffs you already included in your opening comment. While you can of course ask about them, characterising them as some more examples seems a bit misleading as they had already been presented in the same context that you are asking about now. Sideswipe9th (talk) 04:21, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

No more misleading than referring to editors acting in good faith as vandals repeatedly. —Locke Cole • t • c 04:35, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Astonishing. --JBL (talk) 23:09, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

the diff you linked to my saying "your opinion doesn't matter" (which I admit was not a respectful way to put it, but it was also taken out of context) is part of a discussion that led to InedibleHulk removing verified and cited information, which they had already disruptively cite tagged. I believe there was at least one other instance of them disruptively cite tagging that article but I am having trouble finding it. I believe your placing an NPOV template on that article was also an example of disruptive tagging, and other editors have said your behavior around the NPOV tag constituted disruptive editing. I admit that these do not constitute vandalism, which was a term I misunderstood and which I now know is an inappropriate thing to say on a talk page and without sufficient evidence.

the 2023 covenant school shooting talk page was the first one I had been active on in any significant way, and the way people are speaking in that talk page is very offensive. you were not the first editor to come after me from that talk page and yes, I got defensive when you posted a template on my page. it seemed to me (and honestly still seems in some ways) that wikipedia was an inherently unfriendly place, and I believed the way I was communicating was both in line with the guidelines and pretty respectful in that context. I now realize that the talk page for that article and the users who are active on it reflect the contentious nature of the article, and that basically nothing on that page follows wikipedia guidelines. I will adjust my own behavior accordingly now that I know that, as I have done and will continue to do each time I learn something new about the expectations.

If I should assume you're acting in good faith why can't you assume I'm acting in good faith? your actions toward me regarding the edit warring are mentioned by name in WP:civility, which says "Be careful with user warning templates. Be careful about issuing templated messages to editors you're currently involved in a dispute with, and exercise caution when using templated messages for newcomers (see Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers). Consider using a personal message instead of, or in addition to, the templated message." and "(a) taunting or baiting: deliberately pushing others to the point of breaching civility even if not seeming to commit such a breach themselves. All editors are responsible for their own actions in cases of baiting; a user who is baited is not excused by that if they attack in response, and a user who baits is not excused from their actions by the fact that the bait may be taken." several users have pointed out that your interactions on that talk page are inappropriate in tone

after looking at WP:DNB it seems clear that you have also not abided by these guidelines, particularly "Remember Hanlon's Razor. Behavior that appears malicious might be from ignorance of our expectations and rules. Even if you are 100% sure that someone is a worthless, no-good Internet troll, vandal, or worse, conduct yourself as if they are not. Remember that the apparent test editors have the potential to be tomorrow's editors. By giving a polite, honest and noncondemning answer to newcomers, you have the opportunity to teach them Wikipedia policy. By being calm, interested, and respectful, you do credit to your dignity, and to our project."

you've also called out other editors for not attempting dispute resolution despite implying that it would be ridiculous for you to have tried to resolve a dispute with me, rather than spending that energy trying to get me banned Tekrmn (talk) 21:08, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

• I had concerns about User:Locke Cole and their editing, but hadn't gotten myself to fully dig in and vocalise myself or bring it to ANI.

There were several tone issues (1 2 3) and two cases of borderline WP:BADGERING to the point of making conversations unreadable (1 2). I also found one case of WP:BURO where I now realised they might be right (1) and another where I'm unsure but think they're wrong. (2 calling this discussion 'nuanced' and drawing out the RFC)

Their other edits as I went through the page ranged, for me, from 'understandable but probably wrong' to 'well rooted in policy'. I guess my sticking point is of discussions being drawn out to an unreasonable halt, but I cannot find policies they violated.

Having gone through the discussion, I'm no longer as convinced of my earlier conclusions. I'm pasting the diffs I collected anyway. Something about their behaviour ticks me, I just have not been able to pinpoint if they're a well intention-ed but rub people wrong; or doing some sort of WP:CPUSH.

Soni (talk) 19:47, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Having said that, I now notice several of their comments in this very heading that definitely highlight the same tone issues, so maybe I was not hallucinating my earlier concerns. Soni (talk) 19:53, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Your first diff is a Jim Michael2 comment? The other two are... to quote someone above, nothingburgers (let the "tone" sink in there). Regarding the alleged badgering, it's also a reverse WP:SATISFY (damned if I do (badgering) or damned if I don't (not satisfying those who disagree)). Don't worry, I won't respond to misunderstood policy and guidelines in the future and continue to let you lot believe what you want to believe... As to 2nd WP:BURO, are you not aware of WP:FRS? Closing an RFC after a handful of days doesn't allow those who were solicited to respond... As to tone issues, I guess taking issue with being told I'm not civil is a problem, but it's perfectly fine for someone to to say I'm a vandal and I should be "removed" from the article? Help it make sense, please! —Locke Cole • t • c 19:56, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

My first link went one diff too far but linked the correct section with what I wanted to link.

Don't worry... you want to believe This is the same tone issues I've noticed through this ANI thread (as opposed to the milder Talk page diffs). I recommend taking some time off to compose your replies.

are you not aware of... solicited to respond I freely admit I'm unsure on this, having not worked deeper with RFCs in a little while. Happy to be corrected/informed so by an uninvolved editor.

but it's perfectly fine for.."removed" from the article? I intentionally did not comment on Tekrmn's comments as I've not been following them along closely enough to make a full opinion.

Your other points are mostly valid, which is the entire reason I said I'm no longer as convinced of my earlier conclusions while writing the above comment. I'm pasted the diffs, but my conclusion was "Can someone uninvolved do a sanity check" as opposed to "WP:BOOMERANG time, admonish Locke". That was me ending up partially agreeing with you. Soni (talk) 20:17, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh, don't worry, the WP:BOOMERANG comment was already added, then quickly removed (I appreciated the ominous "not yet" edit summary). As interesting as I am (and I assure you, I'm very interesting), can we please stop trying to derail this thread about Tekrmn (talk · contribs) and their behavior? Editors involved in the disputes at 2023 Nashville school shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), who pretty much all disagree with me, seem to have made their way here to try a pile-on. Only one uninvolved editor has chimed in so far, and they thanked me for my reply, but it feels like the involved ones are just here to protect (or at worst, distract from) Tekrmn. —Locke Cole • t • c 21:20, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

For better or for worse, BOOMERANGs are going to be an inherent part of ANI. So I don't think they're as derailing as you claim. it feels like the involved ones are just here to protect (or at worst, distract from) Tekrmn Comments like these are precisely why you've been such a difficult editor to work with, I guess we just have to wait and see what uninvolved folk feel about them wrt our policies.

Either way, having no opinion on Tekrmn, I guess I'll just wait for other uninvolved editors to weigh in accordingly. Soni (talk) 23:53, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

I'd like to add myself to the list of editors who have had negative interactions with Locke Cole. I hadn't planned on posting here until his most recent edit. To be clear, I don't think Tekrmn has always struck an appropriate tone—and I have, at least once, disagreed with him on the talk page. That talk page is a contentious one, and, unfortunately (though not surprisingly), the right tone is often not struck. But, while I understand Locke Cole's frustration that so much of this section has been devoted to his behavior, rather than Tekrmn's ("can we please stop trying to derail this thread about [Tekrmn] and their behavior?"), the simple fact is that the behavior of many, including Locke Cole (including myself, including Tekrmn, etc.), provides important context for the debate on that page and Tekrmn's edits—I'm not seeking any outcome other than providing that context.

Discussion of first interaction featuring quotations

Locke and I had a few brief interactions, but I think our first prolonged one occurred at the legal-name section. There, I pointed to Wikipedia policies that cover the discussion of people who are "not the subject" of articles and the discussion of people "outside of [their] main biographical article[s]". Locke contended that the shooter was the subject of the article on the shooting, and that the article was, for purposes of those rules, the "main biographical article" on the shooter, since no other biographical article existed. I said that I disagreed with that reading, and I pointed out that "subject" is singular, and if everyone who got a section in that article was considered a "subject," the article would have dozens—the perpetrator, victims, and possibly even the "react[ors]". In response, Locke accused me of "actively suggesting we shouldn't cover the perpetrator"—when I pointed out the absurdity of that interpretation (and also noted that I had added more info to the perpetrator section than he had), he stuck to it. He added, "Words have meaning, and they don't mean what you seem to think they do." I suggested that he was assuming bad faith, and I said we should take a break from interacting each other.

Discussion of second interaction

Shortly after I made that suggestion, Locke Cole decided to chime in on a completely unrelated discussion I was having with another user. I had made a table of editors participating in a survey, endeavoring to show that there was a relative consensus that the shooter should principally be referred to as Aiden Hale. As of now, the table shows that 19 editors have supported principally referring to the shooter as Aiden, and only 4 editors have not. In a small-text footnote, I also pointed out that one of those four had been banned in relation to their conduct on the page, including alleged violations of WP:GENSEX. Another user suggested that pointing this out was WP:GRAVEDANCING. I responded, saying that was certainly not my intention, and endeavored to explain why I had included the note. Locke Cole then jumped in, escalating the first user's complaint by saying I was violating WP:NPA. I attempted to answer the accusation he posed, but I also asked that he not hound me across sections. In response, Locke Cole said, "Do you think you can just break rules as long as you announce you don't want anyone to interact with you that might call you out on them? This was, of course, another absurd allegation—a different editor had raised the concern about the footnote, and I was in conversation with that editor.

I had no plans on chipping in on this section until Locke Cole made clear that he'd be unwilling to take break from interacting with me (as I repeatedly requested). But, given that my repeated requests were mocked or ignored, I think detailing them here is now warranted. I've found that Locke Cole consistently assumes bad faith and struggles to police his tone—he exaggerates editor's views into the absurd and turns them into caricatures. I'd agree that Tekrmn has made exaggerated aspersions against Locke Cole (including the "vandali[sm]" remark), but Locke Cole has done the same. I find it telling that, above, when Sideswipe9th pointed out that Locke Cole was being misleading, Locke Cole defended his characterization by saying he was being "[n]o more misleading than" Tekrmn. Using that same logic, Tekrmn has not exaggerated or cast aspersions to any greater degree than Locke Cole, and thus I don't think any sanction is warranted.--Jerome Frank Disciple (talk) 19:37, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

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• Alpinegora (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Well, I was told by WP:AIV to take it here.

Major WP:NOTHERE, WP:POV issues, and anti-Iranian/Persian behaviour as seen through their edits and comment. Not a single edit by this user (starting from this summer) has been constructive and neutral. The vast majority of their edits have been reverted (some recent examples [1] [2] [3] [4] [5], notice their dishonest "simple changes" edit summaries) and they also responded to my warning with this grim comment, accusing me of getting paid for my edits, etc [6]. --HistoryofIran (talk) 15:21, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Writing so it doesn't get archived. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:58, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

@HistoryofIran: this page is archived by Lowercase sigmabot III, which according to its manual should obey a Template:Do not archive until. I've added {{subst:DNAU|10}} to this thread, which should keep it here for 10 days. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 00:20, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh, that's a thing. Err.. well, this is embarrassing. Thank you very much Apaugasma! --HistoryofIran (talk) 00:23, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Comment by uninvolved editor: I agree, definitely looks WP:NOTHERE to me, only here to push a POV. Together with that user talk page response, should be blocked indef. — AP 499D25 (talk) 04:56, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

IP making personal attacks

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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At an argument over at an RfC on whether to ban joke BLP AfDs, 163.1.15.238 (talk · contribs) said that they "know [I] have WP:CIR issues" and told me to "come on" after I argued that tasteless AfDs can be made for non-BLP subjects. NotReallySoroka (talk) 20:36, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

And Ad Orientem already told the IP to tone it down, in that thread. Schazjmd (talk) 20:47, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

OK, since you've brought my comment here let's have a discussion about why I said what I said, because I have had some serious concerns about your editing for a long time.

Let's start with your ongoing harassment and gravedancing campaign targeting TheCurrencyGuy. That account was blocked 6 months ago, and since then you have been embarked on a crusade to completely remove every single one of TheCurrencyGuy's contributions and preferred spellings from articles, not on the basis of policy or guideline or consensus, but seemingly so you can spite them. You are making poorly thought out, completely unjustified reverts of their edits for no good reason at all. One example is trying to remove every instance of their preferred spelling of Rouble. You have reverted months old edits they made while not blocked on the basis that they are "disruptive" or that they were later blocked, which is not how sock clean-up works e.g. [7] reverting [8], [9] reverting a ton of edits [10]. You have left articles in a broken state, because you were more focused on reverting TheCurrencyGuy than looking at what you were doing [11]. You have made ridiculous edits like swapping the spelling Rubel to Ruble, on the disambiguation page for Rubel because you are focused on removing every instance of TheCurrencyGuy's preferred spelling [12]. You are currently trying to get an RFC overturned despite an overwhelming consensus against you, because you view it as an obstacle to continue reverting TheCurrencyGuy's edits [13] [14]. You have a similar, completely unjustifiable obsession with removing every single instance of "stg" in favour of "sterling", not based in policy, but seemingly because TheCurrencyGuy liked using stg [15] [16] [17] [18] [19].

I could continue by pointing out that your disruption related TheCurrencyGuy is just the latest example of a long list of you making disruptive, WP:POINTY edits in response to disagreements. Another example would be the time that you requested an admin block you if the result of a deletion discussion wasn't to your liking [20].

We could discuss your history of disruption with regard to the arbitration committee? let's start with the time you tried to file an arbitration case for a routine matter which didn't involve you and which did not require arbcom involvement at all [21]? How about the time you falsely accused Thryduulf of disruptive editing because they made some redirects you didn't like [22] then threatened to drag them to arbcom because they are a functionary [23]. How about the time you decided that you wanted arbcom to rule that no-one was allowed to make pages you don't like and enshrine your opinions in policy [24]. Shall we finish this off with a review of your recent, useless comments in cases that have nothing to do with you? Let's start with your involvement in the deletion discussions case, where you decided that arbcom needed to clarify if an AFD topic ban applied to other deletion venues, and felt it needed an explanation of how it applied to April fools jokes [25]. How about your comments in the Lugnuts case, where you felt "I had to ask Lugnuts for clarification once" was evidence of "misconduct" worthy of arbcom [26].

We could talk about the fact that you cannot accept criticism and have "retired" from the project, only to come back once the heat dies down? How about your ridiculous dramatic WP:PRAM "I demand release to elsewhere" messages when asking for self requested blocks [27] and dramatic, ridiculous leaving messages [28].

Shall we discuss the massive amount of disruption and time wasting you have caused with regards to April fools day? Let's start with this edit, where you simultaneously acknowledge that an editors' behaviour was "disruptive" and "strongly inappropriate" while insulting the admin that refused to unblock them with accusations of bias and calling them "the fun police" [29]. Does it really require 4 admins to explain to you why AFDing Donald Trump is a terrible, terrible idea [30]? How about this egregious waste of community time, where you opened a deletion review over an April fools joke page you G7'd, waited for a bunch of people to comment, then decided to keep the page deleted anyway to make a WP:POINT when someone criticised your timewasting [31]. How about the Bobby Witt Jr. AFD [32], which you created, decided was too offensive to keep and blanked, spent two weeks messing around with the humour template, added a disclaimer, started an MFD discussion to delete it [33] decided you wanted to keep it, unblanked, and proceeded to spend months continuing to mess around with. You were still messing around with this page in July!

We could discuss your attempts to write your own essays and policies (e.g. WP:FRIED, WP:NOTSEARCHENGINE) which were unanimously rejected by the community [34] [35] [36] and the follow up tantrum where you deleted everything when you didn't get your way?

What about the fact you accused a 10 year old, 30k edit account of being a sockpuppet of a user who joined last year with absolutely no sensible evidence whatsoever [37] in a sockpuppet investigations filing you described yourself as "contrived".

Shall we discuss your disruptive, often downright nasty comments at RFA where you find flimsy reasons to oppose everyone you've ever had any kind of minor grudge adainst? Lets start with your oppose on Spicy's RfA on the basis that they weren't sufficiently polite when telling you your baseless SPI was without merit [38] [39]. How about Extraordinary Writ, who you opposed because they declined a WP:RM/TR you filed once [40]. How about DatGuy, who you accused of UPE because they made a mistake filling out the nom statement [41].

So yes, I said you have CIR issues, because you have CIR issues, and I had the diffs to prove it. I acknowledge that I was rude in that discussion for which I apologise, I should have voiced my concerns in appropriate venue and just posted here, but a review of the last 2 years of your editing shows an endless pattern of disruption, pointiness/revenge editing and screwing around. 163.1.15.238 (talk) 08:26, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

•  Administrator note I have re-opened this discussion as one of the parties apparently feels there are unresolved issues here. -Ad Orientem (talk) 12:48, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

The only outstanding issues of mine from your wall of text is the Witt AfD (that I am willing to let go if consensus so mandates) and the TCG situation. Yes, I admit that I favour "ruble", but if you think about it, it has been "ruble" for quite the time before TCG started to mass-change them into "rouble". And over at Talk:Pound sterling, I did hold an RfC on "stg", and consensus favoured its removal in favour of "GBP". Therefore, the TCG situation, though controversial, is a non-point in your argument.

If you really think I am that problematic, you should hold a discussion here regarding sanctions against me - after all, you do have a superficially strong case to do so. And if you think the Witt MfD is unfunny, please go MfD it (again); I pledge that I will not unpromptedly repeat the acrimoniousness that was my DRV. Just try not to dig up my rookie mistakes like WP:FRIED that has long been the water under the bridge, and present them as evidence as if I have been an LTA all along.

After all, if I really were an LTA all along, why didn't the admins block me in my early days when I made WP:FRIED? How about the fact that I was never warned (let alone blocked) when I reverted TCG or made the Witt AfD? Not that any of those were meritorious actions, of course, but why have no-one noticed my apparent lack of competence until today (or yesterday, depending on time zones)?

Thank you. NotReallySoroka (talk) 14:40, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

@NotReallySoroka I mean, if anything that response only serves as more evidence that you have WP:CIR issues. You don't seem to have understood anything I wrote.

The only outstanding issues of mine from your wall of text is the Witt AfD ... and the TCG situation. Bullshit. You were being disruptive with April fools rubbish on TonyBalioni's talk page hours before I wrote the original response. Your disruption with regards to arbcom has been a feature of your editing from the moment you joined to some of the most recent cases arbcom heard. Your most recent RFA disruption was two weeks ago. This isn't an issue consisting of specific incidents, this is a long term pattern of disruption.

over at Talk:Pound sterling, I did hold an RfC on "stg", and consensus favoured its removal in favour of "GBP". 1) your edits were not swapping "stg" for "GBP", they were swapping "stg" for "sterling" which there is no consensus for at all in that discussion. 2) An article talk page is not an appropriate place to come up with style guidelines that apply across the entire site, this discussion should have taken place at the manual of style.

Therefore, the TCG situation, though controversial, is a non-point in your argument. The major "point" regarding TheCurrencyGuy is that you have shown that you are willing to sacrifice the project's integrity just so that you can further a grudge. You are making edits not on the basis of "what is best for the encyclopedia" but instead on the basis of "what would most upset TheCurrencyGuy". You are willing to discard good quality, reliable sources because they support TheCurrencyGuy's position instead of yours. You are trying to subvert our usual consensus building process and overturn an RFC not because there is a legitimate problem with it but because it is getting in the way of you removing everything TheCurrencyGuy did.

If you really think I am that problematic, you should hold a discussion here regarding sanctions against me What on earth do you think this discussion is?

you do have a superficially strong case to do so. How is my case "superficial"? I have backed up every single allegation I have made with evidence in the form of diffs showing your long term history of disruption. Do you want me to add more evidence here to make my case stronger? I could easily add a paragraph or more about your disruption at ANI if you want?

After all, if I really were an LTA all along Where do I refer to you as an LTA? Do you even know what "LTA" means? I said you had WP:CIR problems, which is a very different thing to being an LTA.

why have no-one noticed my apparent lack of competence until today? You mean like [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] for example? You have also quit the project multiple times in response to people pointing out your disruptive behaviour. 163.1.15.238 (talk) 11:03, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

• I noticed this after the mess on my talk page about the Trump AfD which they didn't even start: I agree with the IP editor's comments after reviewing all the diffs. NotReallySoroka, you're bordering on a WP:NOTHERE/CIR block because you treat Wikipedia like a social network and not like an encyclopedia, while making things harder for the people who are here to contribute to its building or maintenance. I don't think this should be closed with any sanctions at this time, but a firm warning that continued disruption will likely result in you being indefinitely blocked, either by an individual administrator or by the community at a noticeboard, is in order. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:16, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
  • I tend to agree with TonyBallioni and the Oxford IP. NotReallySoroka's conduct on Wikipedia, particularly in the RfA space, has been needlessly disruptive. A firm warning is certainly called for. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 14:35, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    IMO a topic ban from April fools day, a topic ban from project space (or at least certain parts of project space) and an interaction ban with TheCurrencyGuy would all be worth considering. 163.1.15.238 (talk) 11:31, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

    And a {{trout}} for bringing a knife to the IP's gunfight ... ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:06, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

    That really isn't a helpful comment... 163.1.15.238 (talk) 11:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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trolling my talk page

.Raven is trolling my talk page. I've asked them several times to stop, but they continue. I don't know if this is some sort of game, or if they think they're somehow scoring points, but it's getting tiresome. — kwami (talk) 14:10, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

.Raven left 4 different warnings on Kwamikagami's talk page, with Kwamikagami reverting the warning each time with an edit summary of "rv. troll". Diffs of the warnings: 1, 2, 3, 4

It looks like these warnings were in retaliation to an edit warring warning that Kwamikagami left on .Raven's talk page here. .Raven did reply to the warning on their talk page, indicating that there has been disagreements across multiple pages in this dispute. So there's history here which I, frankly, don't want to take the time to dig into.

Your report is very vague and expects others to do the leg work of looking into the situation. Please try to explain a situation better when making reports at ANI and include diffs to evidence when you can. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:38, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

After Kwamikagami told Raven to stay off their talk page twice, .Raven posted additional template warnings to User talk:Kwamikagami, which might be considered harassment. Schazjmd (talk) 15:34, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Very simply, I did not see his edits on my talkpage because I was still posting on his. – .Raven  ^.talk 16:06, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

If I may offer background? kwami and I first encountered (as far as I know) in late March^＊ when he was changing numerous China-related articles – Cheng Man-ch'ing was the first I noticed – to change the ordinary apostrophe (') to an ʻokina (ʻ), a Hawaiian character. I did not revert him there or even edit that article at all; I objected on its talkpage, and as one outcome @Peaceray reverted, and took the larger issue to WT:MOS#Disallowing use of the ʻokina in Chinese romanized article titles, still open as I write. With that unresolved, I've tried helping restore the pages to their stable status quo ante, the default or neutral position... with kwami reverting my reverts, a move war. More recently he moved a page I'd been working on, from its clear WP:COMMONNAME of Theban alphabet (~32,900 Ghits) to the less specific Theban script (~74 Ghits, including Wikipedia)... which I reverted under WP:RMUM, and again he reverted – so that when *I* opened Talk:Theban script#Requested move 3 April 2023 it was a case of BRRD. It turns out he's done the same to a number of other "alphabet" pages that (per WP:NCWS#Alphabets and the consensus on WT:NCWS) should be titled "alphabet"s. Oddly enough, he claims WP:NCWS justifies this. So now there's discussion on WT:NCWS#RFC on alphabet definition (opened by me), as well as more page move requests on some of those articles' talkpages. And discussion on his talkpage and mine. He's repeatedly accused me of "playing stupid" for not agreeing with him, and also repeatedly of "bad faith" (for instance, because I posted those page move requests.) Today he put a user warning on my page in which (with his own added text) he told me that since those page move requests were open, I shouldn't edit the text of any of the articles. This is not only not the rule as I understand it, he himself has continued to edit those articles, so it's a "rule" he doesn't obey himself. I've responded with the same 3RR warning for the sake of the record (since he's far more active, despite being "semi-retired from Wikipedia", and engaging in both edit- & move-warring); as well as warning him about his violations of WP:AGF, WP:BRD, and WP:NPA, etc. As you saw, he's "rv. troll"'d them, and come here. I've just learned today from this page's archives that edit-warring is not recent behavior on his part. Apparently he lost at least one user-rights bit over it. That might be useful context. – .Raven  ^.talk 16:04, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

＊ Whoops! Date is about right, but I forgot an encounter before the China-related articles, in which he insisted it was "racist" of me to refer to indigenous peoples as either a "tribe" (even if they have a "tribal government") or "ancient" (even the ones with continuous cultures since before the cut-off date in the definition of "ancient"). See User talk:.Raven#Racist use of "tribe" to mean "primitive". – .Raven  ^.talk 17:14, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

I think .Raven leaves some important context for the greater issue, and it does look like they are doing the right things with regards to dispute resolution. That being said, .Raven: if you haven't seen it before, please read WP:DTTR, and especially in light of the sequence of edits here from 13:33-14:10 today, I'm not sure how to read that as anything but low-level harassment. If kwami is reverting your warnings with "rv troll" (and yes, they should absolutely not be calling you a troll), the message is plain that they aren't interested in getting warning templates from you. If you've got a problem, explain the problem in plain English. If they ask you directly (or make it clear through their actions) that your messages aren't welcome on their user page, don't keep hammering at them. Instead, bring the matter up for dispute resolution. If they don't want to interact with you, fine. Find someone else to review the matter and give a neutral assessment. At no time should you be spamming a user's talk page with warning templates, especially not when they are currently in an active dispute with you. It comes off as rather rude. So yea, if your summary is accurate with regard to starting discussions on the talk pages, you did that part fine. That doesn't excuse hammering Kwami's user talk page with pointless templates. Start a real conversation next time, at the minimum, and if that isn't received well, then just don't. --Jayron32 16:17, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Fine, OK. In my own defense, once kwami started communicating on my talkpage with a template – to which he'd added a nonexistent rule even he wasn't following – that seemed an invitation to communicate with him likewise (but with better justification, since he'd *actually* violated more policies than he alleged I had) on his webpage. Or is one-way communication a thing on WP?

And as I told Schazjmd above, I was still on his talkpage while he posted on mine; so I didn't see his messages until I got out (the alerts don't show up on my screen when I'm at the bottom of a page). – .Raven  ^.talk 16:49, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

"Someone was rude to me, so I thought it was license to be equally as rude to them" is not a defense. Next time, let other people be the wrong ones, instead of joining them in being wrong. --Jayron32 18:16, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

That's a good principle, which is why I haven't simply reciprocated to his repeated and unfounded personal attacks of "playing stupid" and "bad faith", or even simply reverted his reverts with non-explanations like "rv", "rvv", and "rv. ignorance", as he's done – but rather, if my detailed and RS-citing explanations fail (as usual), taken the issues to RFCs and PMRs. I've been "letting him be the wrong one" for a while.

Note that even kwami calls my last comment on his talkpage "substantial", though he then repeats the unfounded attacks... to which, of course, I must not give any answer at all. – .Raven  ^.talk 01:15, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh, and now that I've had time to check, I see kwami has once again reverted me on N'Ko script (as he has renamed it from N'Ko alphabet), to delete citation of an RS which contradicts him – commenting "rv: this is an ongoing discussion -- wait for the result". But the "ongoing discussion" is Talk:N'Ko script#Requested move 10 April 2023, a page move request, which is not (that I ever heard) reason to stop editing the article text. He's deleting valid info I added, using a bogus reason.

No wonder he posted that bogus message on my talkpage. – .Raven  ^.talk 17:41, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Likewise this edit by kwami on 'Bassa Vah script', deleting three refs and fouling up two others. This seems to be reversion for the sake of reversion, as if he owns these articles. – .Raven  ^.talk 23:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

And kwami has now reverted to remove not only RS citations but also the wikilinking of "West Africa" from N'Ko script, commenting only "rv. troll". Clearly I'm not allowed to edit at all, if even brackets must be undone. – .Raven  ^.talk 04:25, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Yep. I reverted giving my reasons at User talk:Kwamikagami#You have again reverted RS citations without due cause; he re-reverted giving me another 3RR template (level 2). Then on his talkpage he said "If you want to restore any improvements you made, I have no problem with that." I took him at his word. He then reverted me again (third time in 1.5 hours), and threatened: "Once more and I'll file a 3RR complaint at ANI." Is that entrapment?

Per the above gentle hint about WP:DTTR, I have not posted any further template to him, nor tried to restore even the wikilinking he once again undid. It does seem he owns the page. – .Raven  ^.talk 05:25, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh and the remark on his talk page: "I'm simply not willing to parse the good from the bad in your edits...." – in other words, the parts he agrees with from the parts he disagrees with. He just reverts my edits in toto.
"... -- that's your job." – If he considers wikilinking "West Africa" the work of a troll and vandal, how could anyone guess what he'll accept as "good"? – .Raven  ^.talk 06:50, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Now what kwami has reverted (with the comment "rv. chronic POV warrior") included my adding the sign for comma in Bassa Vah with a ref to WP:PROVEIT; a fully relevant external link to Omniglot; and my making the Defaultsort actually include the full article title, three short words – of which he deleted the middle one. kwami himself has refused when asked to cite RSs supporting his edits. – .Raven  ^.talk 10:03, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Also please see Talk:List of numeral systems#Please provide RSs (not fandom sites etc.) for these prefixes to -gesimal. Or perhaps fandom sites are now RSs for adding mathematical vocabulary here; how could I not have known? Though Google can't find any site or book except the above page for the term "quitrigesimal". So is a Wikipedia page sufficient RS for itself? Please advise. – .Raven  ^.talk 06:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm disappointed that Kwamikagami hasn't commented further on this discussion and is now involved in an edit war with this user at N'Ko script and Osmanya script. As a former admin, they should know better. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:37, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

@Kwamikagami:, @.Raven: You're both right on the line for an edit warring block. Courcelles (talk) 13:41, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Kind of an ironic comment by Kwamikagami considering their reversions and the edit summaries they've been using to call .Raven a troll and a POV pusher. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:36, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

@Courcelles: I know, and I'm upset at myself for getting drawn into this. I've tried discussing, on multiple pages/threads, including most recently Talk:Osmanya script#Stop edit-warring, and, as mentioned above, on his talk page. He has, for his share, templated me again (also as mentioned above), and tried to recruit other editors: WT:NCWS#Help with POV-warring. It has become impossible to do so much as add and document a Bassa Vah comma sign, fix a malformed link, or wikilink another article. 2012's report leaves me thinking this is just history on endless repeat. I should have taken that hint and just stayed away from the quicksand, even when he moved an article I'd been working on. Doing so now, despite the info still lacking or broken on multiple articles. – .Raven  ^.talk 15:54, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

So to add on, this former admin is canvassing, stonewalling, and levying personal attacks. It's really seeming like Kwamikagami has serious problems with edit warring and conflict resolution, given that they lost admin and then later rollback permissions for dispute related issues. They've also been blocked several times in the past for 3RR / edit-warring offenses as well.

Not to say .Raven has been perfect in this, which they've acknowledged, but I'm starting to suspect a WP:BOOMERANG may be appropriate. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:46, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

I didn't want to file a formal complaint, just wanted someone here to tell Raven to stop trolling my talk page, a complaint I filed after I had told them multiple times to stay off my talk page unless they had something constructive to say. They had repeatedly templated me with warnings to stop doing things that I wasn't doing, such as vandalism warnings, after I give them a 3RR warning. After I filed here they did stay off, apart from later commenting on other topics, which I don't mind as long as they're arguing in good faith.

As for Josh's objections, there was no "canvassing". I asked for help on the NCWS discussion to keep various articles stable while the naming guidelines were being discussed, since Ravin hadn't notified the discussion of the parallel move requests. That's not "canvassing", and I didn't go behind their back to anyone's talk page. The only "stonewalling" was insisting that we wait for the outcome of the NCWS discussion before we start implementing our preferred version of it. (As, for example, just happened at Theban alphabet, due to a consensus for new wording at NCWS.) As for personal attacks, I've called Raven out on their bad behaviour. We can't have a constructive engagement when an editor is acting in bad faith, and there is plenty of evidence of that, including fake citations; POINTy citation of uncontested points in the leads of the articles being discussed, as if to prejudice the move requests; 8 duplicate move requests that don't mention the ongoing NCWS discussion on that exact topic, or notify the people involved; and chronically misrepresenting and pretending to not understand the simplest points that are made, which everyone else in the discussion is able to understand. Kind of a Borat defense, that in response we need to dumb down the discussion, which they then continue to refuse to understand.

E.g. R insists that unless I find a RS that a alphabetic script is not an alphabet, then I'm not allowed to revert their POV-warring, despite the fact that there's no claim, by me or anyone else in the discussion, or anywhere in the article, that it's not an alphabet.

In another case, I reverted them after they added a claim along with a citation that (a) is not a RS in the first place and (b) had been retracted by the authors themselves in a later edition. I even contacted the authors to ask why they retracted the claim -- they said they never had a good source and were contacted by people in the field that the claim was in error, and I let Ravin know. Raven then restored the bad citation and added two more, which didn't even mention the topic, and claimed that I now couldn't revert their edit because I'd be 'reverting sources'. Or, when they complained that I had reverted some good edits with the bad, and I said I wouldn't mind if they restored those bits, I just wasn't going to take the time to do it myself, they sarcastically took that as permission to continue the edit-war. These are examples of a pattern of behaviour that convinces me that Raven engages in bad faith edits and arguments when they don't get their way, and I have called them out on it whenever they do it. — kwami (talk) 20:39, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

• Drat, I was going to avoid interaction, but some of this has to be addressed:
  • "... insisting that we wait for the outcome of the NCWS discussion before we start implementing our preferred version of it." – So the RFC on WT:NCWS and not the page move request is the "discussion" meant in the revert-comments and 3RR template saying I shouldn't edit these articles? But – just as my move requests for the Bassa Vah, Gadabuursi, Kaddare, N'Ko, Osmanya, Todhri, Vithkuqi, and Zaghawa articles, as stated on their talk pages, were based on the existing text of WP:NCWS#Alphabets, "'Alphabet' is used for language-specific adaptations of a segmental script, usually with a defined sorting order and sometimes with not all of the letters, or with additional letters" (in context of the WT:NCWS consensus surrounding its placement by kwami, e.g. "If an alphabet is specific to more than one language then it’s still language-specific."), and were also compatible with the RFC's proposal(s), thus they would be unaffected by the RFC's outcome, pass or fail – so, likewise, my edits.

The RFC opens: "Should 'alphabet' in WP:NCWS include letter-sets for specific uses (e.g. ISO basic Latin alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, Theban alphabet), as well as for specific languages (e.g. Somali's Kaddare alphabet and Osmanya alphabet; Zaghawa's Zaghawa alphabet; Mandaic's Mandaic alphabet)?" [boldface added] IOW, the existing text already covers the latter set of "language-specific" alphabets; should it cover "use-specific" alphabets like the former set(ISO basic Latin, IPA, Theban) as well? I pointed out that Vaisaac's summary of consensus had included "for specific languages or use" [boldface added], to argue that should have been in the text all along.

Therefore the only articles affected by the RFC outcome were use-specific alphabets like ISO basic Latin, the IPA, and Theban – the last example of which has since been resolved separately – an important clarification to make, because kwami had declared these all "scripts", not "alphabets", and did so again during the RFC.

That kwami has also moved the natural-language alphabets (e.g. Somali's Gadabuursi, Kaddare, and Osmanya, all designed for that single language) into "script" titles actually contradicts the existing text of WP:NCWS#Alphabets, although kwami thumps "WP:NCWS" as the rationale and can cite no off-WP RS consensus agreeing with their premise.

But that's not even a "discussion" up for support-or-oppose comments. kwami's never started an RFC to move natural-language alphabets over to "scripts", nor is that proposal part of the current RFC. kwami's simply moved and edited them BOLDly, then repeatedly reverted any reversion, and also any article text-edit restoring (or supporting with cites) the status quo ante. To me this seems the encyclopedic equivalent of a coup d'etat; kwami now owns those articles.

And I don't think that's right.

• "fake citations" – which citations were "fake"? On various articles, kwami's repeatedly reverted to delete the Merriam-Webster dictionary entry 1a for "alphabet" ("a set of letters or other characters with which one or more languages are written especially if arranged in a customary order"), and Clair, Kate; Busic-Snyder, Cynthia (2012-06-20). "Key Concepts". A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. p. 347. ISBN 9781118399880. alphabet: a set of visual characters or letters in an order fixed by custom. The individual characters represent the sounds of a spoken language. ... In addition to English, there are... Bassa (Vah),... International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA),... N'Ko,... Somali (Osmanya),.... – I invite anyone to click the links and compare my quotes with their actual texts.

• "POINTy citation of uncontested points in the leads of the articles being discussed" – If the point is "uncontested" in those articles, why is kwami removing the word "alphabet" from both their titles and their body texts?

• "8 duplicate move requests..." – No, each is on a separate article talkpage, for that article alone, They cite the same documentation because the same issues apply. kwami knows this; kwami has made the same claim before, and I've refuted it each time.

• "... that don't mention the ongoing NCWS discussion on that exact topic" – as noted above, the RFC on WT:NCWS doesn't affect these natural-language alphabet articles, whether pass or fail; nor do they affect it.

• "or notify the people involved"' – Note that kwami, who moved those articles from "alphabet" to "script", did so without discussion or notification to anyone, and quickly reverted all reversions also without starting discussions (until quite recently, e.g. the templates and this ANI complaint). To each of my move requests, kwami has quickly !voted "opposed"; who else was "involved" to notify?

• "chronically misrepresenting and pretending to not understand the simplest points that are made, which everyone else in the discussion is able to understand." – As I told kwami before, "You mistake disagreement for incomprehension."

• "R insists that unless I find a RS that a alphabetic script is not an alphabet, then I'm not allowed to revert their POV-warring, despite the fact that there's no claim, by me or anyone else in the discussion, or anywhere in the article, that it's not an alphabet." – Again, note kwami's insistent removal of the word "alphabet" from article titles and body texts.

A writing system can be both an alphabet AND a script... as a logographic/ideoraphic script is also a script... but when a species is also the sole member of its genus, we still title it by its species name, then create a redirect to that from the genus name. (If more genus members turn up, we can convert that redirect to a dab without having to rename the species article.) The same preference for specificity surely applies to alphabets.

• "In another case, I reverted them after they added a claim along with a citation that (a) is not a RS in the first place and (b) had been retracted by the authors themselves in a later edition. I even contacted the authors to ask why they retracted the claim -- they said they never had a good source and were contacted by people in the field that the claim was in error, and I let Ravin know." – In fact, kwami never mentioned having done such OR offline, nor would I have accepted such an unprovable claim. kwami asserted there'd been a retraction, I asked for an RS to that retraction, and kwami never replied to that request. This is in reference to article Alchemical symbol and his deletion of Magnesium from a list there. My cite was a Unicode proposal from the website of Indiana University's "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton" Project – but kwami then claimed that project had had the symbol removed from Unicode. He gave no link, of course. Discussion on my talkpage, following the reversions on 'Alchemical symbol', from 01:21, 12 April 2023‎, forward. Note that ironically, and perhaps without even realizing it, kwami later added a link to an existing file photo of a 1931 book showing a recognizable symbol for "Magnesia", as I mentioned at the end of my talkpage's thread. I thanked kwami for it.

I also added the source book (of the chart kwami had linked) to refs for Magnesium. I now see that kwami has again deleted Magnesium from the list, along with all its refs, commenting "rv fv (spurious sources)"; look at those sources for yourself.

Update: I see that kwami made that claim of personal off-WP contact in Talk:Alchemical symbol#Magnesium, posted 20:58, 19 April 2023 (UTC) — 19 minutes after claiming in their above 20:39, 19 April 2023 (UTC) comment in this thread that they'd told me so earlier. Wow. (This was also nearly 17 hours after their removal of the Magnesium entry for "spurious sources".) – .Raven  ^.talk 01:55, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• "Or, when they complained that I had reverted some good edits with the bad, and I said I wouldn't mind if they restored those bits, I just wasn't going to take the time to do it myself, they sarcastically took that as permission to continue the edit-war." – What kwami actually said, verbatim, was: "If you want to restore any improvements you made, I have no problem with that. I'm simply not willing to parse the good from the bad in your edits -- that's your job."  I took kwami at their word. They reverted me in toto  again, as usual.

• "Raven engages in bad faith edits and arguments when they don't get their way" – Funny thing, I've never accused kwami of "bad faith", due to WP:AGF. – .Raven  ^.talk 23:36, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Maybe because you don't have reason to accuse me of acting in bad faith? You're still pretending you don't know what words mean, which, since I suspect you're intelligent enough to know better, raather proves my point. — kwami (talk) 02:48, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I know I'm going to regret weighing in here...
@.Raven: It's pretty clear from context clues that kwami was responding to the second half of your comment: Is it "trolling" to even wikilink "West Africa" (one of your removals), for goodness's sake? when they said, If you want to restore any improvements you made, [etc]. It was a license to re-insert the wikilink; not continue to edit war.
That misinterpretation was really on you. You were told explicitly, if you improve content in the same edit that re-introduced disputed material, you'd get completely reverted. You made the same edit as you made the first time you were reverted, and kwami acted accordingly.
I am not excusing kwami's actions here because edit-warring is still edit-warring, but your insistence that kwami implied you could make these 2 edits is just wrong and disingenuous. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:42, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

@MJL: In response to your request/comment on my talk page, Raven's duplicate move requests are at Bassa Vah script, Elbasan script, Gadabuursi Somali script, Kaddare script, N'Ko script, Osmanya script, Todhri script, Vithkuqi script and Zaghawa script. So that's 9, actually. (I don't count Theban script, which is a slightly different rationale and had been requested earlier.)

As for the difference between "script" and "alphabet", if you're interested, see Latin script and Latin alphabet, or Arabic script and Arabic alphabet. The one is the basic writing system, the other the application of that writing system to a particular language. So the English alphabet we're using is in the Latin script, but there are two Serbian alphabets, one Latin script and one Cyrillic, and two Kurdish alphabets, one Latin script and one Arabic. The question being discussed at NCWS is for cases like Bassa Vah, where the script is only used for one language. Thus the article could be labeled either "Bassa Vah script" or "Bassa Vah alphabet". Do we choose 'script' because it's a writing system, or 'alphabet' because we're discussing the application to a single language? Both aspects are (or should be) covered in the article. — kwami (talk) 21:05, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

By that rationale, every "alphabet" article should be titled "script", as all alphabets (and abjads and abugidas and syllabaries, etc.) are types or subsets of scripts.

But that removes information rather than adding it. We know, when seeing a title say "alphabet", that a type of script is involved. We do not know, when seeing a title say "script", that an alphabet is involved. "Alphabet" tells us both things; "script" tells us only one.

"Script" is appropriate when there are several subset alphabets, as "Cyrillic script" includes, e.g., the Russian, Buryat, and Mongolian alphabets. "Arabic script" likewise includes, e.g., both the Arabic and Persian alphabets.

In the cases at issue, there are no subset alphabets involved; just one alphabet per article.

Per WP:NCWS#Alphabets, "'Alphabet' is used for language-specific adaptations of a segmental script, usually with a defined sorting order and sometimes with not all of the letters, or with additional letters" – and these are all "language-specific", most of them for one language only; N'Ko for a small group of languages or dialects, the Manding languages, outside of which its chief feature (that all users, no matter how they speak a word, spell it the same way in N'Ko) doesn't work. – .Raven  ^.talk 02:01, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

> "if you improve content in the same edit that re-introduced disputed material" – But kwami has insisted over and over (even above) that these were "uncontested points"; kwami's point seems to have been merely that footnotes must not be in the lede. The last paragraph of WP:LEDE's lede differs: "As a general rule of thumb, a lead section should contain no more than four well-composed paragraphs and be carefully sourced as appropriate, although it is common for citations to appear in the body, and not the lead." [emphases added]  I've cited and quoted that sentence to kwami, who has continued to disregard it. – .Raven  ^.talk 01:41, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

User:MrsSnoozyTurtle

• MrsSnoozyTurtle (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Greetings! I think we have to discuss User:MrsSnoozyTurtle editing once more. I understand MrsSnoozyTurtle are passionate about fighting WP:COI, but their recents edits are unfortunately not helpful. There was a discussion about them, where many editors shown their concerns and there was some sort of consensus to topic ban them, but due to broad proposal a consensus was not reached and the discussion was archived prematurely. Hence, they received WP:ROPE (again) from the community.

I just checked their recent edits on Douglas Cumming, Berry Campbell Gallery, Ignition system and found them disturbing. They are continously failing to assume WP:GOODFAITH and are deleting useful contributions even after being reverted by by an editor who is a professor and gave a proper summary. It is clear now that they are not well-versed with WP:AFD/WP:DRAFTIFY guidelines, or even aware but don't care to follow. They nominated this page, without WP:BEFORE and without even going through the references, just because it was drafted by a "disclosed paid editor" - good way to punish them - first nominate and if that doesn't work then delete the page to bare minimum. Similarly, in the case of Berry Campbell Gallery where there is no apparent WP:COI and they are just assuming and based on that assumption, converted from a well-sourced version like this to something like this. This is what vandalism guideline says: "deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose" which I belive applies to them nicely.

We have to find a solution to this behavior as this is driving new potential editors away from Wikipedia which is a big loss. Thanks. 82.4.215.32 (talk) 23:03, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Please notify the editor. See When you start a discussion about an editor, you must leave a notice on the editor's talk page. Also, I find it suspicious you know so much about this editor's activities given your first edit was made earlier today. Did you forget to log on? Ppt91^talk 23:12, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

The IP notified the user.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:13, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict) And who exactly are you? An IP whose only edits are to post here with a rather expansive knowledge of policy pages, diffs, etc.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:13, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Just an IP. I travel widely, somewhat nomad lifestyle, so this happens with me. I like being an IP: we can't delete sourced information like MrsSnoozyTurtle can because somebody would revert us, can't nominate page for deletion, AfD rationale holds little value, so we just contribute and build encyclopedia. 82.4.215.32 (talk) 23:43, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

As for Berry Campbell Gallery, WP:OVERCITE is not well-sourced. @MrsSnoozyTurtle had every reason to made these edits and to question the subject's notability given that these sources were only passing mentions rather than significant coverage. And a commercial announcement published on Artsy about the gallery's expansion does not pass WP:RS. Your remaining examples of alleged wrongdoing are similarly flawed (that being a "professor" is somehow synonymous with editorial authority and so on), but I see no point in dissecting these just to waste more time. Ppt91^talk 23:36, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't have the bandwidth to list all of their edits here. The editors who participated in the previous discussion know it is a long-term issue. They deliberately avoid scruitny by deleting all the warnings on their talkpage. I don't want to go through their talkpage again. Regarding edits, even their summaries are wrong: they removed this saying "Removing unreliable sources". Is Sangbad Pratidin unreliable? How about this: [48], remove references and then label it as "Removing unsourced text, article structure". Wow. 82.4.215.32 (talk) 23:56, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Having read the previous discussion it was not "archived prematurely", it fizzled out with the now indef blocked OP barely missing a WP:BOOMERANG. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 23:59, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

"indef blocked" how? 82.4.215.32 (talk) 00:02, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Sorry that could be ambiguous, I meant the OP of the previous post not this one. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 00:03, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

I should be sorry - I linked up wrong discussion. I was talking about the discussion in which you participated. Sorry for messing it up - somehow linked wrongly while searching. 82.4.215.32 (talk) 00:08, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

That thread had a lot of diffs showing a specific problem, particularly edit warring. It wasn't enough to get a consensus. If those issues have returned (I hope they haven't) you'll need to show with diffs, not waving at the edit histories of articles. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 00:29, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

I was just about to post a similar comment. Between the misrepresentation of the old discussion and the nothingburger complaints about specific articles, there's no cause for sanctions on MrsSnoozyTurtle here. IP seems to be either deliberately misrepresenting or just reading with grudge-colored glasses. MrOllie (talk) 00:05, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• Corrected the previous discussion. Apologies again. 82.4.215.32 (talk) 00:11, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
  • Found another comment regarding their grasp of AfD: Hello Jeppiz. Notability is not the basis for this AFD, please see the nomination statement. If notability is not an issue then why nominate? 82.4.215.32 (talk) 00:25, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    WP:TNT is a valid reason for deleting an article, if contentious. This wasn't a brilliant nomination, but mostly because another editor cleaned up the article (with a hatchet). -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 00:39, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    • WP:TNT is an essay. 82.4.215.32 (talk) 01:12, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

      Its also shorthand for a widely accepted principle that is used in dealing with problematic articles created under notable titles. If there is a consensus in a discussion that TNT embodies the correct action to take, then it violates no policy or guidelines and is an acceptable outcome.  // Timothy :: talk  01:48, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: (I am adding this prefix per below) While there are problems, this is a Grudge complaint with no merit, clearly arising from AfD disputes. This [49] exceeds my threshold for AGF. This is clearly an editor with a grudge that is trying the "everything and the kitchen sink" tactic hoping something sticks.  // Timothy :: talk  00:26, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
  • TimothyBlue, maybe, but [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Cumming&diff=prev&oldid=1149626586&diffmode=source this edit was not good. Drmies (talk) 02:09, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    I agree there are some problems, but this feels like a grudge match. I've refactored my comment to be clearer. Thanks,  // Timothy :: talk  02:26, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    And I admit my own personal disbelief of the IPs claim not to have a regular account (IP or reg acct), is a large factor in my belief that this is a thinly disguised AfD grudge match (an opinion, but most cmts are).  // Timothy :: talk  02:37, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    I am glad you voiced your belief aloud, because it is something that I believe is a recurring issue with how users treat IP editors. We wouldn't tolerate an IP editor accusing a regular user of being a sockpuppet without evidence. I don't understand why it isn't considered dirty pool when the accusation, implied or not, is the other way around. There are plenty of editors who roam between IP addresses and have been recurring contributors to Wikipedia, and in fact have been reasonably effective in sniffing out vandals. There are lots of disruptive IPs too, of course, but we identify those based on their actions and not by presuming their intentions. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 15:18, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    Its the lack of an editing history of any substance, combined with a knowledge about internal wikipedia stuff that most don't have (reg or IP), combined with the circumstances, which makes me believe we are not being presented with the full picture/background. I'd feel the same way if this was a newly registered acccount.  // Timothy :: talk  15:27, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

    I was an IP editor for a long time, and you're right that they are treated with little respect (something I've mentioned before on this board). However given certain things I don't think Timothy is wrong here. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:53, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• I've reverted the blanking of content done to Berry Campbell Gallery. That was very blatantly MrsSnoozyTurtle just doing another vandalism. An argument could potentially be made for removing the selected artists list for those featured at the gallery, but not the removal of the history section and the specific selective removal of the references supporting that content. Just pure vandalism of the article because the AfD didn't result in the deletion they wanted. Silverseren^C 02:36, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  I cannot speak to MrsSnoozyTurtle's past edits, but this was neither blanking nor vandalism. That article, which is about a contemporary commercial gallery, uses promotional content to establish notability (Artsy and Artfix Daily are just two examples). The whole thing reads like a press release, including a lengthy quote from the gallery's founder. It is also a prime example of WP:REFBOMB--why would a mention of an artist represented by the gallery need 4 of 5 footnotes? Finally, the AfD was without consensus, rather than keep. Ppt91^talk 02:53, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  @Silver seren Just so I am specific: in references 1 through 9, used for the actual content of the article, not one passes WP:RS for significant coverage in establishing notability (a single interview from Surface is not sufficient). References 10 through 45 are used as citations for a list of artists, which should be done with a single source and is nothing short of ridiculous. Ppt91^talk 03:02, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  (EC) A quote can be shortened. And I don't consider a quote from the creators of a gallery on why they founded it to be all that promotional. Especially when it is taken from a reliable source magazine. And there are certainly references that can be removed, but there are sources at the top level of reliability that discuss the gallery featuring various artists' work. And there is absolutely no explanations I can consider reasonable for turning the article into this and removing literally all of that. That is indeed blanking and vandalism of the article. Silverseren^C 03:06, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  I'm glad for your opinion. Still not an explanation for the blanking of the article. Silverseren^C 03:06, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  NYT discussing the artist's work is a reliable source for that artist, not for the gallery which represents the artist, unless its notability can be independently established. The gallery was established in 2013 and while it's great they are promoting under-represented artists, I have yet to see art historical or cultural notability. And relying so heavily on commercial content to prove notability is just egregious. Ppt91^talk 03:26, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  I never said the New York Times article was a source meant to establish notability. But it was an accurate source for the usage and there was no reason for it to be removed. And that's especially so for the Surface interview article. Hence why MrsSnoozyTurtle's blanking actions were vandalism. They bizarrely also left just one unreliable source in there, I guess as an argument to then claim the article is bad and non-notable? I can only guess to that being the reason, since they might as well have blanked everything and called it unreferenced at that point. Silverseren^C 03:32, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  I think the article absolutely warranted an intervention but I respect your objections as to how that was handled. I hope that clarifies things. Ppt91^talk 03:47, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• Comment this editor MST has been making harassing edits for some time. I will offer diffs when the community has the appetite to sanction MST and not the reporters. Lightburst (talk) 19:17, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• @Lightburst:, please do state some specifics, both to support the IP (who's getting extra-heavy flak for the non-crime of being unregistered) and to avoid a charge of casting aspersions. Further, this is at least the 2nd time the editor's conduct has been brought here recently,and I agree with Drmies that removing a list of books published from an academic's article is not a good edit; that's a standard part of such an article, important for demonstrating notability, and the list was not indiscriminate as the edit summary claims. I've restored the list with refinements to its presentation. Gutting articles like that—even more so, like this flagged by Silver seren as well as the IP editor—doesn't help the encyclopedia at all. (WP:TNT is blowing it up and starting again, not just blowing it up.) So I think we should have it out now, so that MrsSnoozyTurtle can be induced to stop doing things like that and like whatever you refer to, and concentrate on their useful work. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:25, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

@Yngvadottir: The last ANI was full of diffs that editors here dismissed. And claims from @Tryptofish: that MST was harassing and needling ARS. Nothing came of it and it has continued. If I felt this was going to go anywhere I would provide diffs again. Basically MST has been harassing myself and the ARS for more than a year by: refactoring edits to the project page, and WP:FOLLOWING to ivote angular without ever trying to rescue a single article which was posted to ARS. After Sozo Water Park was posted for rescue, members improved it and MST waited until the AfD closed as keep and then erased most of the article with a misleading edit summary of "various changes". When I reverted the erasure they reverted me. That was December and more following has occurred since then. MST's following, and needling has been a puzzling thing to deal with. In March I had this discussion on @Star Mississippi:'s talk page. Lightburst (talk) 02:35, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for that, and I note the removals at Sozo Water Park have since been reverted; I have done some tightening. But I'm afraid specifics are needed if harassment is at issue, especially since definitions vary. In particular, some would not place activity at the Article Rescue Squadron under that heading, since it is itself an advocacy group within Wikipedia. But refactoring others' edits at the project page is wrong; can you show a diff of that? @MrsSnoozyTurtle: Have you been careful to assume good faith of ARS members? And what's your rationale for cutting down articles after they have been examined by multiple editors and kept at AfD? In terms of ridding Wikipedia of promotional material, wouldn't it be more useful to accept consensus and move on to another article? Yngvadottir (talk) 03:28, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

@Yngvadottir: Read Tryptofish's comments in the last MST ANI to see. The first ANI was full of problematic edits by MST - maybe too many diffs, so that editors were too overwhelmed to read them all. Lightburst (talk) 13:53, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

• Comment. My semi-revert of MrsSnoozyTurtle at Douglas Cumming was mentioned in the report. I take the editing here to be in good faith: I believe the list belongs in the article for the reasons in my edit summary, but without book reviews it may not be completely obvious. MrsSnoozyTurtle did not revert me after that, although she converted from a list to a paragraph (since reverted back to a list by Yngvadottir). I agree with Yngvadottir that the list format is preferable here, but I also think that there is room for reasonable people to disagree. I do agree with the totality of the recent edits at the Douglas Cumming article of MrsSnoozyTurtle and others, which cut the Douglas Cumming article down from a huge mess to a reasonably sourced article. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 20:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
• I've been aware of and have been following this discussion, and I'm commenting now, because I've been pinged. It's true that I raised some significant concerns at the last ANI discussion, about MrsSnoozyTurtle acting in unpleasant ways at the ARS noticeboard, and interested editors can look back there to see what I said then. We came out of that previous ANI with a consensus that MST should be on her best behavior going forward. From what I'm seeing above, there have been some suboptimal edits (notably the one highlighted by Drmies), but not the sort of thing that rises to being sanction-worthy. At the same time, I've also see evidence of MST doing good work (having gotten thanks from @Bishonen:), and having had to deal with some unfair trolling: [50]. At the same time, Lightburst, who pinged me here, does not have entirely clean hands ([51]). And yet, Lightburst, too, has also been doing a lot of good work since he was last at ANI, so I didn't pursue that incident I just linked to any further. I'm not sure whether this current ANI thread can really lead to any sort of action being taken, but I'll strongly urge that all involved be on their best behavior, for real. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:51, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
  • I've looked at the previous AN/I again, and noted that quite a few editors argued there for a restriction on MrsSnoozyTurtle, but that discussion ended after she promised to re-familiarize herself with the rules on PROD and draftification. She does seem to have been doing better, to judge from the balance of responses here. But I find disquieting that she has yet to respond here, which is why I'm pinging her.
    Russ Woodroofe, thanks for noting my edit at Douglas Cumming. But this edit by MrsSnoozyTurtle shortly after the article was kept at AfD was far too severe, removing information filling out the subject's actual biography. A common argument for deletion at AfD, related to BLP1E, is that we lack information to write a biography and can only report what the person is known for; this arises especially with academics, who rarely get profiled in newspapers and magazines and usually have very recentist mini-biographies online at their institutions or at proceedings of conferences. When I looked at that list of books, I was struck by the fact that, as MrsSnoozyTurtle had written in her paragraph version, they all have the same co-author, and independently discovered references at the Florida Atlantic University business school website naming the co-author as the subject's wife. Moreover, those references state the subject's previous position, which should definitely be in the article! Hence my edit added quite a lot of material.
    I agree with MrsSnoozyTurtle's removal of the number of children the couple have—others might disagree, but if we were to include that, I think it should be in a separate "Personal life" section, and the article had in the interim had its blended early life and personal life section rolled into the main Biography section. But I note she also removed his past as an athlete; there was no justification for tagging that as unimportant and then removing it, given that we are writing a biography rather than a paragraph on "the one thing you need to know about this person", and the medals ought to be easy to independently source. (And the Memorable Manitobans source that was misused for his mother's profession is an excellent source for his father; sensitive editing would have kept it.) That article was a mess because of inexpert assembly; taking a scythe to it made it less useful to the reader, and less appropriate as an account of a person whose notability had been established at AfD.
    In a more extreme form, this is the sum of MrsSnoozyTurtle's edits at Berry Campbell Gallery immediately following the AfD being closed as no consensus. (I note that in the spirit of WP:TNT, Silver Seren did not just revert this wholesale blanking but has since improved the article.)
    MrsSnoozyTurtle's good faith in zealously pursuing COI edits and promotional content is not in doubt, but this is a project to write an encyclopedia, and once a topic has been determined to merit an article by virtue of notability, gutting the article is a disservice to the reader and unjustifiable damage to the encyclopedia. Tags and removal of truly trivial or undesirable material is one thing, although looking for a reference oneself is much to be preferred. Laying waste to the article looks like sour grapes, and evinces an assumption of bad faith in editors who argued for the article to be kept. That may be one source of the continuing accusations of harassment? I've nominated articles for deletion and had them kept. It happens. This place operates by consensus. MrsSnoozyTurtle, can you undertake to accept consensus and walk away from an article after it's kept at AfD, rather than cutting away at it? Consider what other problematic articles you might more usefully spend time on rather than attempting to relitigate the decision in this way. Yngvadottir (talk) 02:18, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

  @Yngvadottir: D'ya think you could throw a couple of paragraph breaks into that wall of words to make it possible to read? MEGO. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:22, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

  @Beyond My Ken: I've tried. But whatever I do always seems to violate accessibility guidelines in some way. Yngvadottir (talk) 02:30, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

  OK, Ive made some formatting changes which I hope represent your intentions, and which I think are not a problem in terms of accessibility. If I'm mistaken, please feel free to revert. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:50, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks. That's one more template I keep forgetting how to use, especially when I'm also worrying about asterisk protocol. Yngvadottir (talk) 10:05, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Noting that I reminded MrsSnoozyTurtle at her user talk that this discussion existed, but she hasn't edited since the 16th. Hopefully just on vacation or something. Yngvadottir (talk) 10:05, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I have had the misfortune of crossing MrsSnoozyTurtle's path in the past - they are hell bent on deleting everything they encounter, ignoring others comments, but always carefully remaining just within the lines. I have seen them narrowly escape sanction several times in the past. They freely delete sources which do not agree with their point of view and deliberately needle others when it is possible to do so without actively crossing lines. No matter I hate to be part of such an ill-birthed report but this user's habits and methods pushed me away from editing at all for a while. WP:OWN is probably the main problem, and others have had issues with this user for years.

MST has a particular fondness for deleting large swathes of all BMW articles and removing metric horsepower, frequently introducing tiny factual errors while doing so. They are currently in the process of gutting many articles relating to automobile systems, such as spark plug and fuel injection. After a discussion relating to Straight-eight engine, consensus was reached to restore an earlier version but MST claimed there was no consensus and reverted again. In general, MST will argue but generally pretends not to comprehend others, claims to have misunderstood when problems are pointed out, and pretty much never acknowledges sanctions.

The problems are in themselves not that serious, what's problematic is the fact that they have persisted for many many years, with absolutely no change in behavior as far as I can tell. Again, WP:OWN is my main issue.  Mr.choppers | ✎  21:17, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Possibly blocked user returning as IP?

After JosephDaWizard16 (talk · contribs · count · logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · socks) was indef-blocked for vandalizing Magic (supernatural), IP# 24.22.193.102 (talk · contribs · count · logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · socks) (for its sole edit to date) did likewise. I reverted and placed a uw-vandalism1 on the latter talkpage, but I have to wonder whether this is the same person and more is required. Usercheck, please? – .Raven  ^.talk 03:51, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

When opening an AN/I thread, you must notify the relevant users as described by the big red box at the top of this page. I've notified the IP for you this time. Something something Burma Shave. GabberFlasted (talk) 11:25, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, and so noted. – .Raven  ^.talk 18:11, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Are you sure it's the same person? While neither editor was particularly constructive, the unconstructive edits of JosephDaWizard16 are very different sorts of unconstructiveness than the unconstructive edits of 24.22.193.102. The first tried to spam their YouTube channel, the second just deleted some text in what looks like a test edit of some sort. --Jayron32 14:29, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

"Sure"? No. "Wonder" (as I said)? Yes. Only because both targeted the same page, in the only edits they ever made, over just a few days. – .Raven  ^.talk 18:11, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

To be clearer: I don't think this is the same person. --Jayron32 11:59, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I respect and accept your judgment in the matter. – .Raven  ^.talk 16:33, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

User:Qayqran ignoring general sanctions

Resolved

 – Blocked indefinitely by Courcelles. Daniel Case (talk) 18:55, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Non-extended-confirmed @Qayqran has repeatedly violated WP:GS/RUSUKR by editing articles in the topic area and participating in internal project discussion. They were notified of the sanction at 14:35, 14 April 2023.

Since then, they have made numerous article edits in the topic area,[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61] and initiated a deletion discussion in the topic area.[62][63]

The user has also made argumentative and disruptive discussion posts violating the restriction to use talk pages in the topic area only “to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive.”[64][65][66][67][68]

I request an uninvolved admin evaluate this and take action, as I have been in content disputes with this user.  —Michael Z. 19:27, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

There's also the fact that they have (by my count) four mainspace edits that haven't been reverted for various reasons. 2601:18F:107F:E2A0:B1A9:F14:1C47:1B4C (talk) 19:44, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

• Indeffed. NOTHERE, and refusal to comply with GS. Logged the block on WP:GSRUSUKR Courcelles (talk) 20:07, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
• Good block. The only purpose of this editor was to tendentiously argue and edit-war in contentious topic areas. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:25, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
• Yes good block, pretending to be a confused newbie now after their tendentious rants on Russian invasion of Ukraine and accusing Michael Z of being ″WP:NOTHERE″ and straight up denying their conduct will hopefully not fool anyone into unblocking this clearly disruptive user. --TylerBurden (talk) 10:09, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

User 2405:201:6007:4D61:90F9:A67A:EB7B:1ABF making many changes in the last two days

This may not be exactly the right place but I hope it is close enough, at least for passing onwards to a better place.

User 2405:201:6007:4D61:90F9:A67A:EB7B:1ABF is currently making many changes to place-name across many articles. A few have been reverted (correctly, I think) but many have not.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2405:201:6007:4D61:90F9:A67A:EB7B:1ABF

Hope that's OK.

Feline Hymnic (talk) 16:38, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

I've spot checked a few random recent edits, and I don't see any obvious vandalism. Stuff like expanding acronyms, or changing an anachronistic name to the name in use at the time, all seem in line with good editing practices. If there is vandalism in there, I'm not seeing it. Can you show us some of the problematic edits they have made? Because I'm seeing nothing but good work. Also, per the instructions at the top of the page, you are required to notify anyone that you have brought them up for discussion here. Please correct that problem now. --Jayron32 18:13, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

@Jayron32:: Many thanks.

• It isn't overt vandalism. But it seems a lot of editing activity for a user that is anon-IP and only active for a couple of days or so. (It came to my attention through my watchlist. The edits seemed odd, although not obviously wrong (although there was some overlinking), and they have no edit summaries. I wondered if it might need someone more experienced in oversight to take a look.)
• Apologies for my oversight in failing to notify. It didn't cross my mind for an anon-IPv6 user which can so often be transient. I have (I hope) now corrected my mistake there.

Perhaps there is nothing to worry about. But (for perhaps the first time in my 15+ years here) I wondered whether this might be something in that grey area between "act" and "assume someone else will spot it and act". Apologies for troubling you if there is no problem.

Feline Hymnic (talk) 21:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Regarding your statement "it seems a lot of editing activity for a user that is anon-IP and only active for a couple of days or so" That doesn't mean anything, and should never be taken as a sign that something nefarious is going on. Many people who edit Wikipedia have never made an account, and they don't have to. Accounts may have some benefit, but they are not a requirement for editing Wikipedia. There are people who have spent a decade or more as active Wikipedia editors, and are very familiar with Wikipedia, and they have never created an account. It means nothing, and should not raise suspicions. --Jayron32 12:11, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

The lack of edit-summaries makes it hard to check their edits, but with only one exception, all that added birthday details were unsupported by refs as far as I can tell. One even has a talkpage discussion I had started about the lack of RS on that detail. DMacks (talk) 21:28, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm a Bulgarian vandal

User:Karak1lc1k, after a bit of edit warring on First Bulgarian Empire, tells me that I'm "helping Bulgarian far-right nationalists", which was news to me. I suppose all this started with an edit summary, "the name must be mentioned in the first sentence for true redirecting for scholarly researches by any people from any scientific studies", in an edit which was reverted by Avidius, and later on, when I reverted Karka1, I referenced that edit summary--which is simply incorrect. So they're warned by an editor, and they're warned by an admin, and then comes a barrage of a personal attacks, of the really silly kind: so there's this, "no shit Sherlock", moving on to "fascist globalist dictators", followed by the incomprehensible charge that I am Bulgarian and me and my buddies are "slave[s] of the Eurocentrist Nazis", whatever the hell that means. Someone please tell them to stop. Drmies (talk) 01:30, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

• Clearly, Karak1lc1k is not here to build a community encyclopedia. --Kansas Bear (talk) 01:55, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I've left them a final, final warning on their talk page for their edit-warring and failure to bring up consensus for their edits. Their personal attacks are unacceptable, any further personal attacks and continued edit warring, it's likely a block. Additionally, First Bulgarian Empire is designated as a contentious topic, specifically Eastern Europe or the Balkans, so something to note there. And jeez, those personal attacks are scary! Tails Wx 01:57, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

• "I've left them a final, final warning on their talk page..."

Not a good call, IMO. Said user has already been handed kilometers of WP:ROPE during their stay at Wikipedia. They have a long history of casting WP:ASPERSIONS at users they disagree with and do not refrain from using ethnic labels at other Wikipedians in tandem with insults in order to intimidate them, and to continue their WP:TENDENTIOUS editorial pattern. - LouisAragon (talk) 02:09, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict) A few examples, for the record:

• " It seems that you strongly show your "own subjective beliefs", considering the possibility of your nationality being Russian"[69]
• "And also if you are not a member of a foreign culture, you have to shut up."[70]
• "So, please SHH. Learn it first, or I mean, live it first, or at least try to learn Turkish, at least boy, at least, before pretending "adulthood" (aka patronizing)"[71]
• "How Kurdish? :D I think Kurds are a tribe of Turkic tribes from Kipchaks. I think you know all these knowledges. You are only a system historian, I am the realistic historian. You are a small, little boy..." [72]

- LouisAragon (talk) 02:19, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict) No final (or final final) warning. Blocked indef. El_C 02:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Well, bad call by me. I'll learn from this in the coming months. Tails Wx 02:18, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

User:Tails Wx, LouisAragon sometimes comes off a bit strong. It wasn't a bad call, and I wasn't even out to get an indef block--LA just has a lot more experience, more than me, dealing with editors in that problematic area. Thanks--and thanks, El_C. I had no idea the user had been this problematic for this long. Drmies (talk) 02:36, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Hey np. I blocked before learning about those earlier diffs provided by LouisAragon (hence the ec). And while it certainly bolsters the case for an indef, the egregious nature of the personal attacks otherwise cited more than merits one, in my view (i.e. a return to editing only with the burden of an unblock / WP:GAB having been met).

As for Tails Wx's final final warning, while I don't think it was a good call, I wouldn't necessarily call it a bad one, either. On the one hand, them not being an admin, it really was the most severe action they were able to take in the immediate moment. But on the other, some inexperienced admins might have been deterred from blocking after seeing that final warning, thus, leaving us open to even more disruption (a high likelihood). In the end, though, I think Tails Wx's heart was in the right place, so it's all good. Next time, though, best to wait for an admin. For my part, I should have explained all that less tersely, which is to say at all, but I was distracted by unrelated things. El_C 03:22, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Just as a side note, while a warning might make some unsure whether that warning now starts the clock again vs. whether action can still be taken, it's also generally helpful to see there are multiple warnings from multiple editors who can't take action. Tails Wx, don't take away that you shouldn't be warning. You should. It's the 'final, final' idea that might communicate, especially in an egregious case, that "this is the action being taken in this case, no further action will be taken unless you transgress again" you want to avoid. It's know that's kind of a fine line to draw, though. :) Valereee (talk) 11:39, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi y'all, I just got back from a night-long session reporting tornadoes in Oklahoma. Thanks for the replies, however I still think I've made a bad decision in final-warning them rather than waiting for an admin to take necessary action, but I'm grateful for the advice given above and will look forward to improving in the future! Tails Wx 12:50, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

It takes a lot of integrity and maturity to be able to say this. Respect for that - you're doing good, please keep it up, Tails Wx. --HistoryofIran (talk) 13:47, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Never apologize for showing others grace. Even if the decision is ultimately to block said user, mercy is never a character fault, and one should never feel the need to apologize for it. --Jayron32 17:40, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

No wories Tails Wx! As El C correctly added, while it may not have been a great call, it wasn't a bad one either. No need to apologize for that at all. You were acting in good faith after all, and after more evidence appeared you realized what was going on :-)

• "Never apologize for showing others grace (...) mercy is never a character fault"

I get what you mean, but I don't entirely agree with this take. Tolerating persistent WP:TENDENTIOUS editing over and over is a waste of the community's time, and is harmful to the project as a whole. Especially within topic areas that are frequented by users such as Karak1lc1k. Whilst no one should apologize for being merciful, one should be reflective of the fact that excessive mercy is detrimental and harmful in many ways. Outside Wikipedia as well i.e. IRL.

- LouisAragon (talk) 19:11, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

@LouisAragon:I heartily apologize for being detrimental and harmful. I will try to do better in the future. I know we haven't interacted much, but if you ask around, I'm sure you'll find that "detrimental and harmful" is probably an apt way to describe my presence at Wikipedia. Still, continuous improvement is always my goal, and I will try to stop being such a terrible person. I take it that because you see me as detrimental and harmful, you also object to the unblock request, and think the user in question should remain blocked. Can you elaborate on that so that I can finish responding to the unblock request I put on hold. Thanks. --Jayron32 12:03, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I can not speak for LouisAragon, but their statement is factual. I understand other editors want past comments to be quickly forgotten, but the fact is an admin posted a PA warning on their talk page which resulted in not only the comment "fascist globalist dictators", but was quickly followed by "slave[s] of the Eurocentrist Nazis". Now if I had said this to anyone on Wikipedia, much less in response to an admin, I would have been indef'd so fast TailsWX would have reported it as an EF5(tornado)! If Karak1lc1k wants to prove they can edit without the PAs, I suggest a 1 yr topic ban from all Turkish/Turkic related articles. --Kansas Bear (talk) 13:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

What does everyone else think about this proposal? Do we have support for such a ban? Do we have support for an unblock? Some clarity from the community would help. --Jayron32 17:02, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Not sure why you felt the need to pull a WP:STRAWMAN, but I'm gonna let it pass. On topic: I'm fine with an unblock in tandem with a 1 year topic ban from all Turkish-Turkic related articles. - LouisAragon (talk) 15:08, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

For the record, see User talk:Karak1lc1k for an unblock request; I am somewhat sympathetic to it. Kansas Bear, your mileage likely differs. Drmies (talk) 17:37, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

It looks like they intended to withdraw their unblock request, looking at that talk page's history. Oh well. — AP 499D25 (talk) 00:35, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• Sorry, but I can't read that unblock request right now. If I had time, I'd add paragraph breaks to make it readable, but I don't, and as a non-native English speaker, my eyes just glaze over (I need paragraph breaks for that much text). That said, if the thinking is that that unblock request is good enough, I won't stand in the way. Tails Wx, good luck with the chase, though maybe steer clear of McCurtain County! El_C 01:23, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

  What, is it because of the 2022 Idabel EF4 tornado? BTW, the severe threat's shifted south into Texas, where my friend lives in Waco, and under a flash flood warning. And don't worry–I've been too close to an EF3 tornado twenty days ago! (For that link, scroll 'til you see the Spencer, Indiana one.) Tails Wx 01:47, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Well, if you're white, you'll probably be fine @McCurtain County, OK. Yeah, Texas, I gathered. Mister Big Penta's stream just went down at a decisive moment due to storms, but not before he took a selfie standing at a mountain trail, which scrambled multiple cops to go way out there (over and over again) — but it was actually just a painting in an apartment! (link) El_C 04:01, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh and speaking of Texans, I'm a big fan of Pecos Hank, both storm chasing and music (I featured two of his songs, "Won't Pray Adagio" and "Angel's Serenade," on my songspam). El_C 04:21, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• Support unblock with a 1 year topic ban from all Turkish/Turkic related articles, if Karak1lc1k acknowledges their WP:incivility was not acceptable behavior and if they can address how members of this project are supposed to handle differences of opinion.-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:27, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Margery Jackson

I have posted the following information on the talk page of Mike Peel, and because he is currently unavailable, he has suggested that I copy it here:

I am having problems with an editor who objects to elements of the above article, and I wonder whether you could help? The issue is not their point of view (which they are welcome to), or even some of the changes that they want, but the fact that they are liable to remove content on the basis of their opinion and without discussion. The article will shortly (on 29 April) be linked at DYK for 24 hours, and I fear that its contents may be disrupted daily until then, and maybe even also on its DYK day.

This issue has happened with this editor several times before, on the talk pages of David Simpson (mayor), Richard Ellis (mayor), George Dawson (builder), H. E. and A. Bown, Walter William Covey-Crump, and on the talk page of Constantine Zochonis, (now in archive 1). As you will see, I have on each occasion made careful and extended attempts to explain the article and its contents, and addressed their every query, but this editor just repeats their opinion every time, even when I change the article in an attempt to appease them. Each time they get their teeth into an article, I wake up every morning to more queries about the same small detail, more complaints about the changes that I made to appease them, more accusations, and not infrequently, new accusations based on the wording of my explanations, saying that my explanations imply new and hidden misdemeanours in the article. This editor has frequently also tagged the article some of the articles inappropriately, saying that the article has spelling and grammar errors (which is not the case) and asking editors to heavily prune the article without suggestion of discussion. Every time this happens, it causes me severe distress to have to wake up every morning, dreading what I will have to deal with today, because dealing with this editor is impossible - and worse than that - never-ending.

If the issues had been raised by another editor, who behaved normally, the issues themselves would not be a problem, and we could resolve them immediately in most cases. Compromise would be a good way, but this editor cannot do compromise. The issue is the behaviour of this editor.

At the very least, I would be most grateful if the article could be protected from that editor at least until after DYK is over. Ideally, I would be grateful if a way could be found to stop them behaving in this manner. I am at the point of leaving WP due to this behaviour. I took several years to bring the Margery Jackson article to completion, because I needed a second major biography source to balance the article, and make its contents neutral. I put a great deal of work, time and effort into creating articles, but there is no point if this person continues to track "my" creations and then weighs in with their personal opinion, and will not let go. I don't want to leave WP at all, but I am being driven away by this.

I shall of course notify the editor concerned, in accordance with the notice at the top of this page. Storye book (talk) 10:43, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Additional viewpoints would be most welcome at Talk:Margery Jackson; I had already posted to NORN to request input, but unfortunately no responses yet.

I regularly review content in the DYK queue, and have done for years before encountering the OP. To be clear, I don't check who created that content before reviewing, and have no idea if the OP's content that hasn't passed through DYK has similar issues. From what I've seen at DYK, the OP has a highly idiosyncratic approach to both writing articles (see for example Talk:Walter_William_Covey-Crump or this perspective) and interacting on Wikipedia, one not really well aligned to our policies, guidelines and practices. When their perspectives are challenged, even in the most civil, content-focused way, they react emotionally and with a high degree of ownership (an issue previously raised with them by multiple other editors, see for example Talk:Euphemia Steele Innes or Talk:Cherryl_Fountain). I am very sorry that the OP is experiencing such distress, and have previously encouraged them to step back as needed. Unfortunately it does not appear they are able to do so, which makes discussing content issues quite challenging. They also reject both tagging (which they see as "coercive") and RfCs as means of bringing in more perspectives, which leaves limited options for consensus-building.

To give some specific examples of issues:

• They ask that content not be changed without discussion
• They assert that they will "have to continue to revert your unilateral and undiscussed attempts to remove material", while simultaneously trying to shut down discussion of the material at issue
• They hurl insults: "just because sophisticated British English may be beyond you, it is not beyond others"
• They propose a compromise ("take it or leave it"), but then revert implementation of their proposal, claiming it "was not agreed. It was vaguely suggested by me when put under undue pressure but it was never a good idea"

To be clear, I'm not proposing sanctions against the OP. Mentorship may be helpful in allowing them to better understand our practices - it's clear I'm not someone they're going to listen to on that topic. Or at least they would benefit from a friend having a word. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:50, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The above reaction is to be expected. Sigh. Please see the talk page of the Margery Jackson article for the true context of the above comments.

Regarding the Cherryl Fountain article, the undue pruning there has done a great deal of damage to the article. It got to the point where I was unable to rectify the article (to make it match the sources, for example) without summary reversion. So I gave up. It happened that I had contacted various institutions for information (and for citations to back it up). Some of the staff at the institutions noticed the mess and asked me for copies of the original article, as initially published. This is because at the Royal Academy, Kent museum/art galleries, the National Trust and other institutions needed the information that the public asked for, including the number of times Fountain's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (RASE), and the titles of the paintings exhibited there (with citations of course). The original published version had that, but had been pruned out. They were displeased at the uselessness of the current version, so I sent them a copy of the original version which included that. Since the major pruning operation, I had discovered (and had citations for) some work by Fountain in another major institutions's collection, but I could not add it to the article due to fear of reversion. This is an important matter, because part of an artist's biography notability is the number of national collections in which their work is represented. This situation saddens me greatly, and makes me feel ashamed of Wikipedia in the case of that article. After completing and publishing the article, I tracked down Fountain in order to get a photograph for the article. When I did so, I was asked to reinstate the original version of the article. However, I have been too intimidated to do so. There is nothing wrong with including in an article the number of times an artist has exhibited at the RASE, the titles of the works, and the full list of national institution collections in which the artists work is held (all with citations of course). Storye book (talk) 14:17, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Storye book, the last thing I would want would be for an active contributor like yourself to be driven away form the project; however, I am not convinced that there is any hounding taking place here. Nikkimaria is an active participant behind the scenes in the DYK process (as well as being an FAR coordinator, and a generally enormously experienced editor). When one submits an article for consideration through the DYK process, you are inviting other editors to review it. If they suggest or make changes, you need to discuss those with them, and try to come to an agreement on what the article ought to say. Sure, that can be frustrating sometimes, but it's also a good way to learn more about how we put really good articles together. You (and I) could probably learn a lot from a discussion with Nikkimaria. We are all working on the same team. Girth Summit _(blether) 12:58, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Thank you for your comment. If you care to look at my record of behaviour and responses on DYK, both as creator/expander/nominator and as reviewer, you will find that I almost always cooperate fully and immediately with requests for correction or improvement. There will of course always be a few occasions where we discuss and agree that no change need to be made, but that is done amicably. I should add that I have over 2000 items on my watchlist, and check them daily. There is of course a list of changes every day. It is rare that I dispute any changes on that list. With the exception of vandalism, I am only likely to request a discussion before content removal if (a) the change is going to belie the citations, and (b) I think that the editor concerned may not be understanding the article subject matter fully. The latter does happen sometimes, because many of the articles that I create deal with 19th-century UK, and not all editors on here are familiar with the social and historical context of it, and sometimes they do not have access to my sources. So I feel that I should explain. All this works for most editors, and it is rare that there are difficulties over it. The only long-term issue that I have had is with the above editor, as described above. Storye book (talk) 14:17, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

(nods to Girth Summit) Storye book, there are a great many editors who are very active in particular areas. If you had some issue you took to the ice hockey Wikiproject's talk page, or the Notability:Sports talk page, there's a strong chance I'd be one of those responding to it. If you filed an AfD related to hockey or Massachusetts, there's a strong chance I'd be one of those chiming in. Heck, I'm active here at ANI, and here I am being one of those chiming in.

And in this particular area, we have a very strong incentive to get things right. Damn near every page view on Wikipedia goes through the Main Page first. Given that DYK is intended to be clickbait, its entries need to be as well written (and accurate) as possible. If there were two dozen Nikkimarias poring over every submission, that would be none too many, and editors who recoil at that level of scrutiny probably ought not to be making DYK submissions. That you have many DYKs over the years does not immunize you against that scrutiny.

As to the time and effort you put into articles, well ... I've put a great deal of time and effort into some myself. And as a condition of editing Wikipedia, I accept that my prose and content can be edited, changed beyond recognition, added to, slashed, reverted and/or deleted outright. My first DYK looks significantly different from when I created the article. Not only is that the price of doing business here, but that's fine: I don't know everything, and Wikipedia is not set up to reflect my personal amour propre. Ravenswing 13:51, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

@Ravenswing: I think you will find that I have been misrepresented here. Please see my responses above. I don't "own" pages, and I don't object to changes per se. This is not, and has never been, the issue. The issue is the way that changes have been handled by this one editor. The behaviour of this editor has made it impossible for me to come to an agreement or compromise, however many times I explain, or attempt to adjust the article to appease them. And they will not stop. Look at the contrast in what happens on DYK (see my above comments on that). In recent years there have been big disputes over hooks written by Gerda Arendt. That is not happening any more, because she has withdrawn from direct involvement with DYK, but when it was happening, I used to chime in to the DYK discussions and attempt to undo the impasse and find a hook that would please both the reviewer and the nominator. Sometimes tensions did get high, but the important thing is that it always ended with a new hook getting approved, and the nomination getting promoted - and it almost always ended with mutual respect. So you are not dealing here with a case of "ownership". I happily cooperate with most editors. My issue as posted today is just with this one editor, Nikkimaria. Storye book (talk) 14:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Well, this board is for matters surrounding users' conduct. I do not see any incivility in Nikkimaria's posts on the articles' talk pages, and I see no evidence that she are hounding you - she is just doing what she routinely does, reading and improving articles that have been submitted to one of our formal review processes. I know from personal experience over at WP:FAC that Nikkimaria is thorough, careful and frank in her reviews - perhaps more so than some other reviewers. That isn't a bad thing, though, it can be a useful learning experience. Put it this way: when Nikkimaria proposes some changes to an article that I have written, I start with the assumption that she is probably correct, and try to understand her perspective. It seems to me that this boils down to you disagreeing with some of her assessments, and getting tired of receiving them, but we're not about to ask one of our most prolific and talented content reviewers to step back because you don't like what they have to say about your contributions. Girth Summit _(blether) 15:38, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

The issue about her opinion versus my contributions is now over, because all of those content issues have been resolved. None of the phrases listed on the talk page exist any more in the article. What worries me is that I am afraid that the hounding will continue nevertheless, as it has done in the past, after all issues have been resolved. I fear that there will be no end to it. In the past, the only way that I have been able to stop it continuing, is to make clear how distressed I am, and she then makes some patronising comment and/or blames me for bringing the hounding onto myself, then she stops. So do I have to do that again this time? I would like a better way to make it stop, bearing in mind that all editing issues are now resolved (unless of course she invents new editing issues out of the wording of my explanations on the talk page, which she has done before). This pressure makes me feel nauseous, and I cannot sleep for fear of what I will find tomorrow. If I were an evil editor, introducing porn or advertising, or committing copyvio, I would understand it, but I have never commited crimes on here. I just want this to stop.. Storye book (talk) 17:41, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

You have not been hounded. When you nominate an article for DYK, you know that other editors are going to review it. When you get the review you asked for, there is a good chance that the reviewer will either suggest or make some changes. I can't think of a single time when I have put an article up for review, whether that be at DYK, GAN or FAC, and no changes have been suggested. Don't fear that or get stressed about it - engage with the reviewer, take what they're saying on board - you might find yourself able to enjoy the process if you approach it with a positive mindset. Girth Summit _(blether) 17:49, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I've read the discussion, and I agree there's no hounding; the changes the other editor made that sparked the talk discussion were very typical for DYK. I've made many similar changes at articles as I reviewed them. SB, I get that editing is not easy for you, and clearly having your work reviewed is very distressing for you. Maybe your work process doesn't mesh well with the other editor's. But the fact a review you requested causes you distress doesn't mean you're being hounded. If having your work reviewed is just too awful, don't submit it for peer review. Valereee (talk) 19:16, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

1. The article had already been reviewed, and it had passed DYK, and had been promoted. It is currently in Prep 7, if I remember rightly. 2. I always respond quickly and cooperatively to reviewers on the DYK template (ask the regular template-reviewers), and so far we have always ended up getting my nominations through DYK painlessly. 3. I was not aware that the above textual changes were about DYK. I had understood that they originated in a separate context. 4. All the above quoted wording has now been removed from the article, or has been suitably adjusted.

Reviews per se on DYK templates have never been a problem for me. Ask the regular reviewers there. The changes made by Nikkimaria have all been resolved now, and I had only questioned half of them, anyway. The fact of reviewing is not a problem. The problem has been the argument on talk pages, which never seems to stop, even after all the textual issues have been resolved. How many times do I have to say this. The textual issues are resolved. My issue is with the manner of discussion on the talk page, specifically that that discussion just will not stop, and goes on day after day, even after the textual issues are resolved. My issues are not about not liking being reviewed. They are not about the article's wording. They are about the discussion going on and on after the issues are resolved, and not stopping. How many times do I have to repeat this? Storye book (talk) 20:03, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Articles and hooks go through multiple reviews at DYK. There's the reviewer, the promoter, the admin who moves to queue, plus multiple other editors along the way both at the hook and at the article. It's not uncommon for a discussion to be opened at DYK talk somewhere in there. On average I see a half-dozen people editing one of my articles before it hits the main page. All of these happen because people see things they feel are not resolved. The article creator has no control over that, and yes, it can take a while, and that may be frustrating. It is supposed to be this way. That is what happens at DYK. Valereee (talk) 20:08, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

And on another look, SB, you seem to have the last word in nearly every one of those points. Honestly it actually looks like you are the one continuing to argue until you have the last word. Valereee (talk) 20:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

That's just because it stopped when I posted on the incidents board. Storye book (talk) 20:40, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

"How many times do I have to say this." "How many times do I have to repeat this?" I have a .sig I've been using on VBulletin-style forums for many years now: It's not that I haven't read what you've written. It's that I disagree with what you've written. You are not remotely a rookie here on Wikipedia, and it should not be this hard to wrap your head around the premise that multiple veteran editors (with nearly 70 years of Wikipedia experience and 400,000 edits between us) can have examined the merits of your complaint and still disagree with you. We should not have to keep reiterating the same sentiments in answer to rebuttal after rebuttal after rebuttal. Ravenswing 21:37, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit warring after the block has expired

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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See [73]. They're basically edit warring in order to perform WP:SOAPBOXING for their own WP:FRINGE religious dogma. I don't think that many people around the world even know of the spelling Yehowah. tgeorgescu (talk) 20:06, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I've indefinitely pblocked from that page and talkpage. Said user has some reasonably constructive edits elsewhere, if disruption starts up anywhere else I'll convert it to a full block. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:07, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Indef'ed by user:discospinster Meters (talk) 22:54, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Kurmali language → WP:Kudmali language

Something has gone awry with this page move: [74] by User:চিথারাই_মাহাতো, as it now seems to be a project page instead of an article. This may not be right place to brinng it up, but it looks like there's some messy editing back-and-forth, maybe edit-warring(?), so I didn't want to step on any trip hazards. I'll let the editor know it's gone wrong, though. AukusRuckus (talk) 10:45, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for that. I tried changing from Kurmali to Kudmali. But it was mistakenly changed to the Wikipedia project page. However, how can I do it right now? Help me plz. Thank You. চিথারাই মাহাতো (talk) 10:55, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

 Done I have finished the move, but I do not know if Kur or Kud is best. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:25, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank You. চিথারাই মাহাতো (talk) 14:27, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Kurmali language to WP:Kudmali language page move may be mistake but your activity is not Wikipedia friendly. You disrupted three wiki article Kurmali language, Kudmi Mahato, Chuar rebellion, even after warning. I believe you might be closely associated with that social group and writing your point of view rather than fact with sources.

MaxA-Matrix💬 talk 11:30, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Actually I try to know my mistakes. Thank You. চিথারাই মাহাতো (talk) 14:38, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

80.189.121.239

• * 80.189.121.239 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

The IP has been adding inconsistent sources. They continue to use an image as a source on their edits like this edit here, and when noted about it, defends their edit when reverted, saying that it is "omitting information". I did my best to try and explain the policies of Wikipedia regarding reliable sources, but it appears that they are not willing to listen and are still going ahead. Can someone talk to this IP? It's becoming a headache trying to explain that their source is not reliable. HorrorLover555 (talk) 14:13, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Tupac Shakur biography disappeared

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• Tupac Shakur
• Samlovestheworld99 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Samlovestheworld99 somehow deleted the rapper biography Tupac Shakur, creating a closed loop of redirects with no content. We need an admin to restore the bio. Binksternet (talk) 16:19, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

The article is now at Tupac Shakur (rapper), having been repeatedly moved including to its own talk page at one point. My brain hurts. — Trey Maturin™ 16:26, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

It was a hologram the whole time. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:35, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

The article needs to be moved back to Tupac Shakur, without the disambiguation, and the various redirects repointing to it. Samelovestheworld99 has been indeffed by Ponyo for other offences in the meantime. — Trey Maturin™ 16:51, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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AI for article creation

Originally posted this to the Helpdesk, but it was suggested this was the more appropriate forum. I wanted to flag the issue of possible use of AI in article creation. At Peer review, I came across this, a use of AI in reviewing. That led to this GAR discussion, AI again, where it became apparent that User:Esculenta was also creating articles at a very fast rate.[75] I'm not competent to assess whether or not they are making use of AI, whether it would be a good/bad/right/wrong thing if they are, or whether their actions are in fact completely appropriate. I know the use of AI here is currently a topic under quite heavy discussion although I'm not aware any conclusions have been reached/guidance or policy written. So I wanted to flag it to enable those with the necessary technical competence to have a look. Very happy to flag it elsewhere if this isn't the right place. I have let User:Esculenta know I've raised it. KJP1 (talk) 16:41, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I am actually more disturbed by Esculenta's refusal to respond to KJP1's queries, per WP:COMMUNICATE. BorgQueen (talk) 16:52, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

This edit summary is appalling for a collaborative, consensus-based encyclopedia. In the meantime, Cullen328 has blocked Esculenta for a month. — Trey Maturin™ 17:03, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't know why Esculenta was unwilling to responds to KJP1's initial query, but I can understand them become less interested in responding after being repeatedly badgered to respond. Esculenta is clearly somebody who drafts article outside of Wikipedia and may upload a series of articles in quick succession. E.g. Verrucaria hydrophila, Verrucaria placida and Verrucaria rosula were each created over the course of two minutes (and were created before ChatGPT was released). Plantdrew (talk) 17:06, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I think that is a fair criticism. I should have realised earlier that they had no intention of responding and dropped the stick. I apologise for not doing so. KJP1 (talk) 17:12, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

It seems that Paradise Chronicle raised similar concerns in March. Their reluctance to answer any questions about their editing is very disappointing (to say the least). –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:06, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

In their brief discussion with Paradise Chronicle on March 20, they said Eighty-two articles in a single day is my most recent article creation/time period record, but I plan to crush this in the future. Thanks for the nickname "meatbot", I'm gonna start using it IRL. Their refusal to seriously discuss their editing is unacceptable, and they are rapidly removing all messages from their talk page. I will be off-Wikipedia for a while, but will check in later.Cullen328 (talk) 17:37, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I find it extraordinary that – without any evidence at all of wrongdoing – Esculenta has been banned for a month for creating "AI generated articles". Like many of us, s/he appears to write things off-site. I do this too, when I'm working somewhere other than my house, for the simple reason that I use a VPN while working abroad and can't edit on Wikipedia when I do. S/he was very clear in his/her GA review that AI was used, and pointedly DIDN'T say that AI was used when queried about it a month or so back. It's disappointing that s/he didn't respond when challenged directly (though the confrontational tone of some of those challenges would have put my back up too), but a month ban seems pretty darned extreme. MeegsC (talk) 17:44, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Does it? I was kind of expecting an indeff. The point of the block is to inspire conversation, if there's a reasonable explanation the block is going to get dropped very quickly. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:47, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

"Expecting an indeff?" Wow. For something that's been guessed at but not proven? And therein lies the current problem with Wikipedia. Lots of folks itching to pull the trigger. No wonder we're haemorrhaging editors! MeegsC (talk) 18:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

MeegsC, as I said on their talk page, the editor can be unblocked quickly if they respond in detail to the reasonable concerns that have been expressed about their editing methods. Cullen328 (talk) 18:09, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

@MeegsC: They're not banned. See WP:BLOCKBANDIFF. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:20, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

MJL, I'm sorry, but that's just semantics. They can't contribute for a month; it might as well be a ban! Yes, it's only a temporary ban, but it's more or less still a ban. MeegsC (talk) 18:24, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Again, they can be unblocked promptly if they simply explain their editing processes and address the reasonable concerns. Cullen328 (talk) 18:32, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

"just" semantics?? A block and a ban are diffetent things. Different concepts. With different names. In other words, yes, semantics, without which none of us would be able to make ourselves understood. --bonadea contributions talk 20:41, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Paradise Chronicle listed Esculenta as an example of an editor who was doing a good job while creating a large number of articles a couple days after leaving that message on Esculenta's talk page. Requesting permission for semi-automated mass creation of articles has been policy since 2010, but it wasn't until 2022 that anybody actually requested permission to do so. And Esculenta's articles aren't anything I would even consider semi-automated creations. They may be starting with some boiler plate text, but there is quite a lot of additional information beyond any boiler plate. We have an unsubstantiated allegation of using AI to create articles, and manual (non-automated) creation of a fairly large number of articles (sometimes uploaded to Wikipedia in quick sucession, but averaging less than 3/day). What is the problem here?Plantdrew (talk) 18:51, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

We have, historically, had major issues with mass creation of articles. These issues have always led to other volunteer editors here having to spend time and energy on double checking and clean-up, far more than average human article creation requires. This in itself is unfair on us.

Add to that a habit of ignoring attempts to collaborate in future article creations, using withering put-downs to people who are trying to collaborate, and even just dismissing block notifications with “ok” and a revert… how is this helpful?

I get that there’s a difference of opinion on WP between quantity and quality (we call it inclusionism vs deletionism) but whatever side we’re on, we all agree that communication is the most important thing. And that’s where this rightly went wrong for Esculenta. — Trey Maturin™ 19:35, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Right, I think we would hardly be here if Esculenta had responded with any rationale whatsoever. "It's not AI, I draft piles of articles offline because [whatever] and then when I have [time/internet connection/a whole bunch of articles ready] I upload forty articles at once." But repeatedly blanking with extremely rude edit summaries (I can't think of what else PFO could stand for in this context other than "please fuck off") tells me that even if this person simply has a weird working process, they aren't prepared to communicate with others on the project, and that's the real problem. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Trey Maturin, can you please provide links to where Esculenta "ignored attempts to collaborate in future article creations" and "used withering put-downs to people who are trying to collaborate"? Thanks. MeegsC (talk) 20:38, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

This is my read on it too. I can easily understand that the rapid creation of articles in the manner that Esculenta did would provoke concern – on both AI-generation and database-derivation grounds – but drafting articles offline is totally permissible, and I would be troubled to see somebody blocked merely for doing that. Their conduct in our collaborative process, on the other hand, is unambiguously poor. XAM2175 ^(T) 11:38, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

@Trey Maturin, while we had major issues with masscreation, MEATBOT, which is within a policy and in my opinion would fit for AI, is hardly applied. I believe with Esculenta it was the first time it was considered. I'd support if MEATBOT will be considered in the future also by other admins, not necessarily for blocks but for that editors apply at BRFA.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 04:42, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Cullen328's block

I can see in the history of Esculenta's talk page a testy exchange on the day, with badgering on one side and incivility on the other, which though not reflecting well on anyone involved doesn't seem to go anywhere sanctionable. Once this is at ANI, you'd think we should let people sleep on it and then come back to it after the heat of the moment has passed, so we can all figure out what's going on? But that wasn't to happen: just 16 minutes after the ANI thread was opened, and before almost anyone had had the chance to comment, Cullen328 proceeded to block Esculenta, a long-established and productive editor with a clean block log, for a period of 1 month [76]. The blocking summary is: Unapproved mass creation of articles and another content using ChatGPT or other AI technology. Given the comments on workflow above, and the fact that Esculenta had only created 3 short articles on that day (25 in the preceding week and 123 in the preceding month), there doesn't appear to be any actual problematic mass creation. The use of AI remains an open question, but there's a little bit of evidence against it at Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations#AI_again, and Esculenta has otherwise been completely open about using AI help in two GA reviews, so I wouldn't presume they'd be guilty by default. So, Cullen328, no matter how I look at the situation, I can't see your block as anything other than an honest mistake. – Uanfala (talk) 10:01, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

In the sake of accuracy, this matter came to my attention at the Help Desk where it had been reported 18 minutes earlier, rather than here at ANI. I was not aware of this ANI thread until after I issued the block. And I remain open to unblocking once Esculenta provides an explanation. Cullen328 (talk) 17:07, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Not an admin, but as above I have no problem with the block: blocks are preventative and the user was mass-creating articles, probably using AI, whilst dismissing all attempts to communicate and using nasty edit summaries whilst doing so. Blocks are preventative, and despite others claiming this one was punitive, a block was literally the only thing that could be done to draw the editor's attention to the issue at hand. An indef block would've been more appropriate, except that people believe that indef=infinite, so a month was a good way of heading those complaints off at the pass. Either way, a good unblock request (rather than the editor's choice of a revert with the edit summary "ok") would've been dealt with without drama as 99.9% of unblock requests are. But this is the internet and no good deed goes unpunished here. — Trey Maturin™ 17:18, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

there doesn't appear to be any actual problematic mass creation. Any mass creation without approval is problematic; considering that Esculenta was refusing to engage with legitimate questions I don't believe a block was inappropriate here. BilledMammal (talk) 10:12, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

People like talking and assuming good faith—AI is known to have no clue and to make up whatever seems to sound good, and AI uses fake references, but perhaps AI is useful at Wikipedia. Are you seriously suggesting there is a problem with blocking someone who mass creates 123 articles and fails to respond? Johnuniq (talk) 10:15, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Replying to both of you. The use of AI on Wikipedia is an area of nuances and evolving understanding (WP:LLM). In short: no, it's not banned, but yes, it can be disruptive in many circumstances. The main point though, and one that I guess I need to emphasise is: there's no evidence Escuelenta has used AI for article creation. As for the other point: 123 short articles per month, which is equivalent to 4 articles per day, is not mass creation. – Uanfala (talk) 10:38, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

The problem is that WP:MASSCREATE gives only half a definition of what is mass-creation: it does (somewhat) specify a number range (anything more than 25 or 50), but not in what amount of time. Which makes the definition, frankly speaking, less than useless. I could use it to argue that anyone who, throughout their entire time at en.wiki has created 25 content pages on any subject and of any quality—even if they've been here since the mid-noughts, and thus average only a bit over a page per year—needs prior approval before creating any further content pages, or I could use it to argue that someone creating ~600 near-identical, formulaic stubs or underpopulated categories per month every month without prior approval is not mass creating because their daily average is well below 25. As the rule is written, both are potentially valid readings.

Obviously, pretty much no one will see the former case as mass creation, and just about everyone will agree that the latter very much is. But where in between those two extremes the actual difference between "not mass creation" and "mass creation" lies? That's by no means defined. AddWittyNameHere 10:54, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

163 in March, 51 in April; Quarry:query/73280. And creating this many articles at such a rate, on a narrow range of topics, when there are AI concerns, is mass creation. It might be mass creation that we would support, but that is for a discussion at BRFA to determine. BilledMammal (talk) 11:08, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

BilledMammal, I believe anyone in this area is aware of your stance on this topic, but the community recently rejected a number of proposals to this effect, so no, Esculenta was not required to go to BRFA before creating 160 articles last month. AddWittyNameHere, the rate of 25-50 creations mentioned in WP:MASSCREATE obviously assumes a small period of time (such as a day), that much is obvious from the old discussion linked in that sentence of the bot policy. Anyway, I'm not arguing that Esculenta's creations don't need scrutiny: maybe they do. If the community wants to debate them, it should, and maybe it can even come up with some sanction. But no-one has so far pointed out any specific problems with those creations, and there are no community norms that Esculenta has violated. What I'm arguing in this section is that the unilateral draconian block was not justified. I'd appreciate it if we could stay on point and not turn this subthread into a proxy re-enactment of battles for general guidelines that we personally believe the community should have adopted. – Uanfala (talk) 11:42, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Some were rejected, some were approved, and some failed to find consensus either way.

Defining mass create based on a single days activity also doesn't align with precedent; Lugnuts, who indisputably engaged in mass creation, created over 32,000 articles on days he created less than 25 articles, and 70,000 on days he created less than 50. However, even if you do define it as a single day Esculenta exceeded that, with 67 creations on March 30 and 83 on March 15. BilledMammal (talk) 11:48, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Large Language Models do pose quite a serious threat to Wikipedia inasmuch as they have a virtually-unlimited capacity to generate superficially-acceptable prose that can be inserted into articles with insufficient scrutiny – even though many of the AI-generated text insertions we've seen so far (to the best of my knowledge) have been not from malicious actors but rather good-faith editors who simply did not understand the limitations of the LLM process. The question of whether such process might one day be useful here is irrelevant to the matter at hand, however, because at the moment I don't believe that anybody has actually found credible indication that Esculenta used AI to generate their articles – only suggested that they might have because they've previously openly used an AI process outside of articlespace, and because of their rate of article creation. The latter might easily be explained by drafting offline, and in all truth I wouldn't have viewed Esculenta's editing as infringing the spirit of the mass creation policy because the articles are not the sort of hopeless database-derived perma-micro-stubs that were the main target of said policy.

That said, Esculenta's conduct in communication and collaboration has been very poor, and it's not without precedent for an editor to be blocked in an effort to force them to communicate constructively. I would have preferred to see the block made primarily on those grounds, with the matter of potentially problematic mass-creation as a secondary reason. XAM2175 ^(T) 12:06, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

In hindsight, I wish that I had mentioned the communications issues in my block notice. Cullen328 (talk) 17:10, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

TPA Removal PLS

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User:Salebot12 is spamming their talk page. 1AmNobody24 (talk) 17:53, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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184.92.0.139

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184.92.0.139 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), recently given a three-month block for disruptive edits regarding broadcast stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, seems more interested in randomly inserting stuff about their versions of those stations on their talk page than anything even vaguely resembling an unblock request. I'm not at all convinced that any continued retention of talk page access would be all that useful here. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:16, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

@Wcquidditch So basically, you are asking that this user's talk page access be removed? — AP 499D25 (talk) 09:36, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

I'll revoke talk page access. PhilKnight (talk) 11:32, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

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ErceÇamurOfficial And RFD

• ErceÇamurOfficial (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

ErceÇamurOfficial has been told to stop nominating redirects at WP:RFD or read WP:R and WP:CHEAP before nominating any more redirects many many times; however, the user just keeps nominating redirects without any valid reason and thus is just wasting editors time. As this user is just ignoring editors' requests, this is a WP:CIR issue. Pizzaplayer219^Talk_Contribs 21:55, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• blocked for 31 hours. I was not sure whether a p-block from Wikipedia space would stop them from nominating, or if they'd just create broken ones so this is a full block, but short duration. If any admin feels this needs adjusting, feel free. Star Mississippi 22:03, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

  For what it's worth, I'm not sure if 31 hours will be enough since their editing frequency is so sporadic ... since I hear we can do partial blocks these days, maybe the prolonged block from the "Wikipedia:" namespace may honestly be preferable? (But then they couldn't respond here.) Steel1943 (talk) 22:07, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

  I'm inclined to agree with Steel here but I don't think a partial block to the Wikipedia namespace would fix the WP:CIR problem (especially since most of this user's edits are in namespace and are on BLP articles). If you look at this user's contributions and filter them by edits that have been reverted, you can see a concerning amount of reverted edits compared to their total amount of edits (which is 528 edits). Pizzaplayer219^Talk_Contribs 23:45, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

  with the p-block, they can still tag a page for RfD, they just can't create the discussion I think. My concern was whether that wouldn't lead to broken noms. I'm about to log off for the evening, but if another admin feels that's the answer-feel free. My goal was stopping the immediate disruption. Star Mississippi 01:40, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah, I read that, but I've seen "Wikipedia:" space bans (before namespace blocks were possible) done anyways for reasons that I would have to guess were because the collateral damage was still less. Not sure, but anyways, thanks for taking action. Steel1943 (talk) 03:45, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

  and @Yamla declined an unblock. We'll see if they understand the issue coming out of the block, and we can always block longer if needed. Star Mississippi 16:38, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Coolcaesar: Persistent and widespread incivility, disruptive behavior, and calling good-faith edits "vandalism."

Coolcaesar (talk) has been repeatedly admonished for incivility, disruptive behavior, and calling good-faith edits "vandalism." User talk:Coolcaesar#Please change the tone of your posts, Civil tone, February 2015, Personal attack in edit summary at Circle 7 Animation, Walt Disney, Civility, Your tone, Typo, Choosing your words carefully, Don't patronize me, Hostile response to good faith edits, Edit warring, obvious vandalism to "Interchange (road)", Verbal assault, Ongoing WP:CIVIL violations, Your message "Please do not vandalize Wikipedia", Edit-summary snark, April 2022, April 2022 - 1, “Conflict of interest” page.

There are other instances in the archives of his user talk page:

• /Archive1 (22 August 2004-7 July 2006)
• /Archive2 (8 July 2006-29 February 2008)
• /Archive3 (3 March 2008-20 December 2009)
• /Archive4 (21 December 2009 - 28 April 2014)

This has come to my attention because of Coolcaesar's comments at Talk:Apple Campus#Challenging inappropriate page move by User:InvadingInvader.

This has also been brought up at ANI at least once. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1096#Coolcaesar and baseless accusations in vandalism.

Users have noted that Coolcaesar contributes many useful edits (e.g., User talk:Coolcaesar#“Conflict of interest” page), but that does not excuse persistent rulebreaking. SilverLocust (talk) 22:15, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Based on their participation in the previous noticeboard discussion (in response to this false accusation of vandalism), I am tagging @Ymblanter, Pawnkingthree, Cullen328, Praxidicae, and TJRC. Pawnkingthree said there, "Perhaps we should see if they do heed User:Cullen328's warning, which I think should be a final one." Nevertheless, Coolcaesar still characterizes good-faith edits as vandalism (e.g., Special:Diff/1136318748). SilverLocust (talk) 23:43, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

The edit summary at Silicon Valley in the diff immediately above is way out of line, both behaviorally and factually. Effectively arguing that Menlo Park, California and Redwood City, California are not in Silicon Valley is ludicrous and pedantic, and the accusation of vandalism is a falsehood and therefore a personal attack. On the other hand, the diff is nearly three months old. I am unsure about how to best deter Coolcaesar from making false accusations of vandalism. I hope that other editors might have some constructive suggestions. Cullen328 (talk) 06:26, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

I can only think of a block. This is going on for years, although with a low intensity. Ymblanter (talk) 11:52, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Another possible approach would be a mandatory WP:0RR restriction with no exception for vandalism. I'm not sure this is a good idea, just noting a possible approach. --Yamla (talk) 17:20, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Order of operations - disruptive editing

Over at Order of operations, user Rick Norwood has repeatedly (five times) restored an edit that has no consensus on the talk page, with every other editor participating disagreeing with his edits.

I have repeatedly advised him to reach consensus on the talk page before restoring this edit, but he keeps re-inserting the edit, which as other editors have noted mis-represents the cited sources. He has provided no sources to support his edit.

Initial edit: [77]

First revert: [78]

Ensuing diffs: [79], [80], [81], [82], [83], [84].

Talk page discussions: [85], [86]

I'm not going to violate the three revert rule, so the non-consensus material remains part of the article for now.

Perhaps someone could explain consensus and WP:BRD to the editor, or at least restore the previous version of the article pending reaching consensus on the talk page. Thanks. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 23:57, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

The claims made above can be easily checked by anyone who reads the Talk page of the article Order of Operations. Mr. Swordfish says, that I have "repeatedly (five times) restored an edit that has no consensus on the talk page". On the contrary, I have tried very hard to satisfy Mr. Swordfish, while keeping the article mathematically correct. The current version is not one that has been restored five times, but rather is one that uses Mr. Swordfish's own quote from Mathworld which he suggested in Talk today. I added his own quote to the article.

Here is what Mr. Swordfish said on the Talk page of that article earlier today: "See https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Precedence.html and https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Parenthesis.html, in particular "Parentheses are used in mathematical expressions to denote modifications to normal order of operations.""

And here is what the current version of the article which Mr. Swordfish objects to says, "According to Mathworld, "Parentheses are used in mathematical expressions to denote modifications to normal order of operations."

As you can see, I'm doing my best to satisfy Mr. Swordfish, while keeping the article mathematically correct.

I have been editing this article, off and on, since 4 June 2019 and I always treat other editors with respect. Rick Norwood (talk) 00:30, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Rick Norwood, once your edit has been challenged, you need to provide a reliable source when you restore it. And as a rule of thumb, you shouldn't add any claims to an article without providing a source that supports it. Until you do that, you're basically writing your personal opinion into the article. Whether or not your position is true is irrelevant. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 00:56, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Let's not muddy the waters here. When the article in question was created over 20 years ago , the very first version included four items in the "definition". In the ensuing 20 years, those four items were retained and reliable sources were added that support the four items.

A week or so ago, Rick Norwood deleted item #1 without providing any reliable sources to support the change. This edit was quickly reverted with early consensus disagreeing with that edit. He has repeatedly re-inserted the edit without a) reaching consensus on the talk page or b) providing any reliably sourced material that supports the edit.

That is the issue here. Whether his edit is "mathematically correct" or not is irrelevant at this point - he may be right, but we need to follow the process of finding reliable sources and reaching consensus.

I have tried to explain that major changes to an article need to be discussed on the talk page with a consensus of editors agreeing before restoring a "bold" edit. Perhaps someone could do a better job of explaining that? Mr. Swordfish (talk) 02:04, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

A few points:

1. Whether parentheses/brackets should be listed as an "operation" on that page has not been agreed-upon for 20 years. Special:PermaLink/986278545 (from October 2020) does not include this.
2. Both Mr Swordfish and Rick Norwood were editing this article in 2020, so this is clearly a very long and slow-moving conflict.
3. Mr Swordfish is definitely edit-warring with diffs like Special:Diff/1151100825, restoring (as explained in the Mnemonics section of this article, PEMDAS is the mnemonic) to the text of the article a day after he made a change "rewording" that indisputibly-awkward language.
4. Neither editor can demonstrate consensus for their position on the talk page, because the discussions there clearly have not found consensus. Any claims an editor makes that there is a clear consensus supporting their position must be viewed as an argumentative tactic rather than a statement of fact.
5. Why is this here and not at WP:ANEW?

Walt Yoder (talk) 03:57, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

• Maybe I'm just delerius with fever, but sounds to me like they both need a partial block from that article?-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 04:11, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
• I mentioned the disagreement at WT:WikiProject Mathematics#Order of operations in the hope that other people will offer an opinion. Meanwhile it would be a very good idea for the edit warring to stop. Johnuniq (talk) 04:56, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Despite the statements above, someone who signed himself 2601:18f:107f:e2a0:7142:367:472:ca68 has restored Mr. Swordfish's version of the article.Rick Norwood (talk) 09:34, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

• Comment. Norwood's (last?) version has two major issues that makes it unacceptable in Wikipedia. Firstly, it presents Mathworld as an authoritative issue ("According to Mathworld, ...) although it is a tertiary source, whose use for sourcing should be cosidered with care. Secondly, the removal of the first item makes makes the section "Definition" incompatible with section "Mnemonics", where all mnemonics begin either with P for Parentheses of B for Brackets.
  As far as I understand, Norwood's concern is that parentheses are not an operation. This is true, but this is easily solved by recalling that "order of operations" is a shortcut for "order in which the operations must be performed". If this is clearly stated, there is no more problem to include parentheses in the list. I'll clarify this in the article. D.Lazard (talk) 10:58, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

@Walt Yoder,

Thank you for providing valuable context that corrects a misunderstanding on my part. I was under the impression that this issue had long been settled and that the recent edits were "new". I did not find it discussed in the talk page archive, but since I did not extensively review the edit history I was not aware that this has been a long-term item of contention. Realizing this, I should have been more circumspect in my reverts.

You are correct that consensus has not been established on the talk page. I had assumed that there was an implied consensus, but that assumption was incorrect. I stand corrected.

Moving forward, the proper place to resolve this is the talk page of the article. (Perhaps an rfc is in order, but I'll leave it to someone else to create that.) It appears that we are making progress there, so I'll withdraw this complaint.

Thanks again for your help, and also the other editors who took the time to look into this. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 12:44, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

I am delighted to have you work on the article. I'll move this discussion to the talk page of the article.Rick Norwood (talk) 12:05, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspicious canvassing at multiple venues

Wikipedia:Move_review/Log/2023_April#Hindu_terrorism

• Oriental Aristocrat on 18 April votes to endorse an RM which was largely opposed at the time.[87]
• Nooruddin2020 posts a comment on 18 April to endorse it, but his comment has nothing to do with the RM.[88]
• Ameen Akbar also votes on 18 April to endorse it.[89]
• War Wounded votes on 19 April to endorse RM.[90]

None of these accounts have any history on Move review or the article that is being discussed. Another user, Alalch E. also deemed canvassing has happened while Capitals00 cited another similar instance of canvassing that involved same users.[91][92]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-China terrorism in Pakistan

• Nooruddin2020 starts AfD against a notable subject.[93]
• AfD starts moving towards "keep".
• Oriental Aristocrat jumps to vote for "Delete".[94]
• Ameen Akbar also votes for "Delete" on the same day,[95] despite no votes in any AfD for over 6 months.[96]
• Cheel, an account with only 50 edits, makes his first ever AfD vote to support deletion.[97]

Thebiguglyalien also pointed out about the "unusual activity" in the AFD.[98]

Talk:Pakistani_Taliban#Requested_move_11_October_2022

• War Wounded voted support the move.[99]
• Ameen Akbar also voted support on the move.[100]
• Cheel also voted support on the move.[101]
• Oriental Aristocrat also voted support on the move.[102]

Similarly suspicious activity also happened on Talk:Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir where Oriental Aristocrat is involved in content dispute,[103] but Ameen Akbar jumped to help Oriental Aristocrat[104] without having any previous history with the article or its talk page.[105][106]

Clear off-wiki canvassing is going on. I request an admin to strike/collapse !votes by these users in the ongoing discussions. Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 07:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

As a participant at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-China terrorism in Pakistan, I agree there are strange things going on, with several editors trying to censor the subject. Johnbod (talk) 17:46, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

I agree that a clear off-wiki canvassing is going on. See for example:

1. Aman.kumar.goel and CapnJackSp are the only two editors except a blocked sock and an IP (with both of its edits on the same AfD) to vote Delete.

2. CapnJackSp's first ever edit to 'China' article was to revert @BSMRD: and restore Aman.kumar.goel's five edits.

3. CapnJackSp and Aman.kumar.goel then gang up on 'Talkpage:China'.

4. Aman.kumar.goel's first edit to 'Talk:Pakistani Taliban' is to vote Oppose on the RfC. CapnJackSp too votes Oppose on the same RfC.

5. Aman.kumar.goel and CapnJackSp back each other up on 'Talk:Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948' against @Cinderella157:.

6. Aman.kumar.goel and CapnJackSp remove the same content on 'Violence against Muslims in India'.

7. Aman.kumar.goel and CapnJackSp both comment on the same discussion at 'Talk:Murder of Kanhaiya Lal'.

8. Capitals00 initiates the Move Review for Hindu terrorism following which CapnJackSp and UnpetitproleX comment to Overturn it.

9. CapnJackSp removes the same content as UnpetitproleX and then Capitals00 joins in to edit-war at 'Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir'.

10. Aman.kumar.goel twice reverts the same content on 'Terrorism in Pakistan' that is then removed in their first edit to the article by CapnJackSp. CapnJackSp then continues to edit-war multiple editors (incl. @IAmAtHome: & @Iskandar323:) to CENSOR the article.

11. Aman.kumar.goel votes Keep on the 'Anti-China terrorism in Pakistan' AfD. More influx of Keep votes is expected from editors of that certain country.

This post is simply a BADFAITH HOUNDING that deserves a BOOMERANG. The above instances are just the tip of the iceberg in uncovering this CABAL (more to follow). Oriental Aristocrat (talk) 18:26, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Disruptive IP range

• 2A04:EE41:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log)

Please click here [107] and Ctrl + F "reverted". Now your screen is almost completely yellow, that is how many times this range has been reverted from May 2022 till now. That's almost a whole year they has been bothering Wikipedia with their disruption. Can this range please get a lengthy block? --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:09, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Srich32977 and FAITACCOMPLI

Srich32977 believes that ISBNs should be formatted as 0123456789 or 978-0123456789, and has been mass-converting correctly-hyphenated ISBNs to this form (e.g. [108][109][110][111][112][113][114]), despite guidance in WP:ISBN to "Use hyphens if they are included", and {{cite book}} that "Hyphens in the ISBN are optional, but preferred." Often the rationale given for the edits is consistency; the changes invariably aim at consistent use of the above format. Between December 2016 and now, many editors have asked Srich to stop these edits ([115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124]) – most recent attempt here.

Certainly the content issue is somewhat arcane and opinions will differ, but that is best discussed elsewhere, e.g. WT:ISBN, where Srich has not succeeded in getting support for his position.

The issue here is WP:FAITACCOMPLI: attempting to force his preference on others with mass edits over years, ignoring contrary guidance and the objections of many editors. I ask that he stop making these edits (removing correctly-placed hyphens from ISBNs) until and unless he can show consensus for them. Kanguole 12:49, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

What is the rationale for removing the hyphens? Doesn’t seem to make sense. Hyphens are used as standard in ISBN composition. Makes no sense and doesn’t benefit the project in any way. Don’t usually comment on ANI cases because I am not an administrator but this one just appears very odd. MaxnaCarta (talk) 13:26, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

@Kanguole: mis-construes what I "believe". Out of my many edits, 7 recent examples are selected where I've taken a mix of ISBN hyphen-citation styles and established a consistent style. Were ISBN-hyphenations "correct" or "proper" before or after my edits? In a sense, yes – all the "checksumss" verified that they were valid. But were the citation-styles consistent? No. (And Consistency is one of the "5 Cs" that copy-editors cherish.) Moving along with another example, todays' Featured Article (Renewable energy in Scotland) has 7 references with ISBNs. One of the 7 comes from an edit I did — the expand-citations bot/tool added an ISBN-13 with no hyphens. (Later it was manually hyphenated to 978-1234567890.) My point? This is an FA with a consistent/established citation style and that style involves ISBNs with either 0123456789 or 978-0123456789. Should all WP articles have this sort of ISBN hyphenation? NO WAY. It is too big and clumsy to impose that sort of MOS. Again moving along – a few editors have admonished me. Kanguole is one, another admonishment is for a typo I did. Another recognized that the issue was one preference verses another. But is this "many"? No, in fact I've received "Thanks" and Barnstars for my ISBN-hyphen-related edits. So I will thank Kanguole for noting that my edits are invariably adding consistency to individual WP articles. And I will give even more thanks when Kanguole uses available tools to add consistent hyphen-citation-styles to references. – S. Rich (talk) 16:43, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

It seems fairly self-evident to me that where a number of Wikipedia documents show a consensus that hyphens should be used, the reasonable thing an editor should do to improve consistency is to ensure that all ISBNs use hyphens. XAM2175 ^(T) 17:06, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Disruption

Hanshingling (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

This recently created account has been making disruptive edits, moves and redirects on a number of contentious articles despite several warnings on their t/p which includes creating articles by copying a large chunk of it from the already existing one like Rathore clan (copy of Rathore dynasty Chandel (Gujjar clan) (see Chandel (Rajput clan), only changing the initial few lines where they are pushing Gurjar pov with archaic and third-rate sources - (diff), (diff) et al.

Now they are also making disruptive redirects as well like here - (diff), (diff) among the others. Personally, I don't see that they are here to improve the quality of enclyopedia but only to create a mess in already controversial caste-related articles with archaic sources and disruptive redirects. Pain to deal with the caste-warriors, Indefinate block needed for obvious reasons. Re Pa©ker&Tra©ker (♀) 16:21, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Indeffed for the rapid-paced disruptive editing and inadequate response to the warnings. Note too that they claim to be an AI language model. Lots of clean-up required. Abecedare (talk) 16:38, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Note that caste-related disruption falls under these general sanctions. Deor (talk) 16:46, 22 April 2023 (UTC)